RON BROWNSON ESTATE AUCTION 2
Wednesday, 22 October - Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Stoneware jar – China – early 20thC
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A squat cylindrical stoneware food storage jar of buff coloured clay. Concave base, with an everted basal ring; slightly swollen and flared wall with a high shoulder, short neck, everted rim and wide mouth. The interior and exterior excluding the base and resting surface dipped in a thick dark brown glaze. Material: Stoneware Origin/Date: China Guangdong, early 20thC Cat. Note/Condition/Ref.: Conventionally identified as a ginger jar, this type of pot, described by Ritchie as 'a narrow neck green glaze ginger jar', has only been located in urban digs in New Zealand. Ritchie suggests they date from post 1900. See: Neville A Ritchie, Archaeology and history of the Chinese in southern New Zealand during the nineteenth century: a study of acculturation, adaptation, and change (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Otago, 1986), p. 260. Dimensions: H.9.9cm. Dia.11.1cm
