RON BROWNSON ESTATE AUCTION 3
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Stoneware jar - China,
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Guangdong, China, c.1875. A squat cylindrical stoneware food storage jar of buff coloured clay. Concave base, with a circular spur mark, 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 brown glaze. H.12.4cm. Dia.14.9cm Origin/Date: China Guangdong, c.1866 c.1900 Cat. Note/Condition/Ref.: Very Good. "For a discussion of the body type 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the Chinese in southern New Zealand during the nineteenth century : a study of acculturation, adaptation, and change (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Otago, 1986), pp. 238-242. The jar falls within the dimensions of Ritchie's classification of the large type of squat food storage jars found on local archaeological sites, ie 12.2 to 13.8cm H. Philip P Choy, 'Interpreting ""Overseas Chinese"" ceramics found on historical sites: manufacture, marks, classification, and social use', SHA Research Resource (March 2014), pp. 11-15." https//ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/6404, https//sha.org/assets/documents/Choy%20%20pottery%20research%20%20final%20version.pdf
