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The server has a speckled dark golden brown tea-dust glaze with russet highlights on the exterior w/ a crackle suffused ivory white base interior, below the unglazed rim, and a neatly trimmed base. The glass like glaze has crystal formations on the surface from the loess ingredient- 3rd photo.
The highly symmetrical covered box design features paired rings at different tiers. The foot is surrounded by a set of double rings with their matching width, possibly suggesting the double rings found on imperial porcelains. the half loop finial can be found in many teapots of the Kangxi period, some jars of the Song Dynasty, and many Zhou bronze covered vessels

Hoping an expert on Chinese provincial wares and tea-dust glazes may be able to provide further information which may prove helpful to finding the possible region- Shaanxi? and period for this piece. By the glaze quality, symmetry and foot treatment, I believe it might be Transitional

https://asia.si.edu/object/S1987.404a-b/

https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/chinese-art-hk0732/lot.403.html?locale=en

https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/a-rare-small-dark-brown-and-white-glazed-tripod-3045456-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3045456

Diam: 8 3/4"; 22.2 cm
thank you for looking

Kind regards,

Kevin









Link :Donnelley

view of the interior base.

Link to an article below from the Alain Truong site giving some detail on the importance of loess in the production of dark glassy glazes and the tea-dust variant

http://www.alaintruong.com/archives/2018/03/07/36205672.html

Hello, Not a teadust glaze. Both the Chinese and Japanese have this glaze. Japanese call it Tenmoku. Chinese say various things like Hare fur or Oil spot( not quite like that), or other terms depending on how the glaze comes out. Your piece looks Japanese to my eye and not any older than the late 19th or early 20th, but that is always difficult to be sure when the form is not specific and the piece is not in one's hand.

Hello,
Thank you for your post
the primarily olive green and kacki yellow micro flecks, pic # 3 w/ the overall golden brownish color would be tea-dust, and consistent w/the glazes of the Qing period. one source of influence for the potter may have been the dark Tang tea-dust wares like the one referenced in the link. I agree, the crystal formations of the tenmoku are different than the formations that we see here. there is some interesting detail on these formations provided in the Truong tea-dust link above, as well as helpful information on the topic .
And while we might observe a Kangxi ware to have been made w/exacting symmetry, and have a pair of rings on the foot w/. no marks, consistent wear and w/ very fine foot treatment, it is the glaze quality that may provide the definitive answer on the period question

Kind regards

Kevin

view of the underside of the lid

for comparison in base detail, a stoneware bowl, Jin Dynasty, Henan held in the collection of the British Museum is provided in the link below. Both examples display the outer and the inside foot rims w/ the smaller rim surrounding a foot w/ a narrow diameter. While very similarly constructed by comparison, the two bases are made distinct from each other by the element of symmetry as displayed in this example which does not appear in the Jin bowl. Here, the potter very carefully made the widths of the two rims identical to one another, as mentioned above

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1936-1012-182

a well potted Song jar for comparison w/the very closely matched glaze character consisting of the minute gold toned flecks suffused in the glaze coat. The color as described by the catalog notes is a mottled deep brown black w/a the buff -colored stoneware body

https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/important-chinese-art-n09904/lot.230.html?locale=en

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