A SMALL MOLDED YINGQING VASE

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A SMALL MOLDED YINGQING VASE
SONG DYNASTY

The ovoid body molded with four panels of ribbon-tied lotus sprays, bordered above and below by bands of chrysanthemum petals repeated on the flared foot, all below a flared neck rising to an everted, petal-cut rim, covered in a thin glaze of grayish blue-green color (small rim chip)
5 3/8in. (13.6cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Examples of the same form with slightly different molded decoration were included in the exhibition, The Helen D. Ling Collection of Chinese Ceramics, The Art Gallery: University of Maryland, January 18-March 9, 1995, Catalogue, no. 64a-b; and another is illustrated in So, Gen no Bijutsu (The Art of the Song and Yuan), Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Art, 1978, p. 29, 1-119