RON BROWNSON ESTATE AUCTION 2
Wednesday, 22 October - Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Stoneware jar – China -Guangdong - late 19thC

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Realised: $40 plus premium

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Lot Details

squat cylindrical stoneware food storage jar of buff coloured clay. Concave base, with a circular spur mark, everted basal ring; slightly swollen wall with a high shoulder, short neck, everted rim and wide mouth. The lower wall pierced prior to glazing. The interior and exterior excluding the base and resting surface dipped in a thick dark brown glaze. Material: Stoneware Origin/Date: China Guangdong, about 1890 Cat. Note/Condition/Ref.: A hole was pierced through the lower wall prior to glazing. 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the Chinese in southern New Zealand during the nineteenth century : a study of acculturation, adaptation, and change (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Otago, 1986), pp. 238-242.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 13.8 cm H. See also: 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." Dimensions: H.13.3cm. Dia.15.3cm