NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

This form is more usually seen in qingbai-glazed porcelains, and it is rare to find a well-potted stoneware example. Compare the present lot to a very similar vase illustrated in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, The Matsuoka Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1984, no. 24. The Falk vase has slightly more pronounced lobes on the body and does not have the addition of pairs of double lines encircling the trumpet neck. Another example, in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, with a more elongated neck and more rounded lower body, is illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, no. 222.