An Unusual Pale Green-Glazed Stoneware Ovoid Vase

SUI/EARLY TANG DYNASTY

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An Unusual Pale Green-Glazed Stoneware Ovoid Vase
Sui/Early Tang Dynasty
The full ovoid body tapering towards the cup-shaped mouth, covered inside and out with a transparent, crackle-suffused glaze of pale greyish-green tone pooling above the bowstring band encircling the shoulder and again in heavier drops on the underside of the flat base
12¾in. (32.4cm.) high

Lot Essay

A similar example with cup-shaped mouth but slightly more elongated body is illustrated by Fontein and Wu, Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1980, vol. 10, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, fig. 48.

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