https://emuseum.cornell.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/71660/fullJar with loop handlesSui dynasty, late 6th or early 7th centuryHeight: 6 3/4 inches (17.1 cm)Stoneware with olive glaze: Yüeh wareGeorge and Mary Rockwell Collection72.109.0060Yüeh ware stoneware vase standing on a raised spreading foot ring. Having bulging sides with ridge at the midpoint, high sloping shoulders with four loop handles and a short wide cylindrical form neck. Coated on the upper half only with a crackled gray-green glaze over a white body.Ceramics1870239192Unidentified artistChinaThis classic, northern green-glazed stoneware jar has four loop handles on the shoulder to facilitate tying a lid firmly in place. The transparent olive-green glaze coats only the upper portion of the jar and pooled to a handsome, deep olive color at the horizontal ridge that encircles the waist. Such ridges served a practical function to stop the flow of the glaze and prevent it from dripping down and possibly fusing the jar to its kiln supports. 72.109.006_Disc0422_04225006