Lot Description
A VERY RARE SEMI-TRANSLUCENT PALE MILKY BLUE-GREEN GLASS BALUSTER VASE
SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY
The body tapering from a softly stepped shoulder to a spreading, intergral foot, all below a slightly waisted neck and out-turned, foliated rim
6¾ in. (17 cm.) high
宋/元 月白玻璃花口瓶
瓶花邊口，粗頸，豐肩，實足外撇。通體月白玻璃，不透明，光素無紋飾。此器造型小巧，其花邊口卷疊有序，線條流暢。
此器1992年12月9日購自J. J. Lally & Co.；1995年於三藩市亞洲藝術博物館舉辦之《A Chorus of Colors - Chinese Glass from Three American Collections》展出，並著錄於展覽目錄圖版13號。
Provenance
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 9 December 1992
Literature
C.F. Shangraw and C. Brown, A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1995, no. 13
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Lot Notes
The inspiration for this very rare vase appears to be qingbai porcelain of Song and Jin dynasty date. The pale, blue-green colour and the translucent quality of the glass are reminiscent of qingbai glazes. The shape and out-turned foliations of the mouth rim are related to those of two qingbai vases, with fuller bodies, illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, nos. 606 and 607. See, also, a Cizhou-type vase, dated to the Jin dynasty, in the National Museum, Tokyo, illustrated by M. Tregar, Song Ceramics, New York, 1982, p. 78, no. 76, which has a stepped shoulder similar to that of the present vase, as well as a very similar out-turned mouth rim.
