A rare sancai 'peony' jar Liao dynasty 28.5 cm high. Provenance: Delicate House Chinese Curios, Hong Kong, on 21 June 2001 (invoice). On loan to the Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney, 3 June 2003 (receipt and label). The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no.C101g62 dated 5 April 2001, is consistent with the dating of this lot.