Covered jar with brown dots

Small covered jar with rounded shoulders, sides tapering inward to a flat base, short neck, rolled mouth rim, four loop handles evenly spaced around the shoulder; domed cover with matching loop handle at center top; light gray stoneware with olive-green glaze; iron-brown touched on over the glaze in evenly spaced dots around the shoulder, forming two horizontal rows and on the lid, forming four lines traversing the center loop handle that create a design resembling an eight-spoked asterisk; jar glazed all over but stops short of the foot; the jar’s unglazed base has six markings indicating it was elevated on spurs in the kiln when fired; lid glazed on top, but underside unglazed and bears seven markings indicating it was also elevated on spurs when fired. From the Yue kilns in the Shaoxing area of northeastern Zhejiang province.