Celadon Covered Jar with Ears

The jar is one of the four jars with straight ears unearthed from the Southern Han (905-971) tomb at Shima village of Guangzhou, Guangdong province. The jar was designed after the wooden bucket of the south, which was quite novel at that time and therefore proliferated in Jiangnan region. Similar jars have been excavated from the Yue kiln site in Zhejiang province and Changsha kiln site in Hunan province, and have been found among burial items in tombs dating to the Five Dynasties in Changsha, Hunan province.