A RARE LOBED GUANYAO VASE

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

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A RARE LOBED GUANYAO VASE
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
Of Jiaotanxia type, the body of pear shape molded with eight lobes rising from the spreading foot of conforming outline and rising to a flared mouth rim, covered overall with a pale slightly bluish gray-green glaze suffused with golden crackle, the foot rim left unglazed allowing the grey ware to fire to a reddish brown
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high, box

Provenance

New York private collection since 1991.

Lot Essay

A very similar vase from the Jiaotanxia (Suburban Altar) site at Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, and now in the Seattle Art Museum, is illustrated by Trubner et. al., in the catalogue, Asiatic Art in the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1973, p. 167, no. 121. Compare, also, the Jiaotanxia Guanyao vase of this form illustrated by Hasebe in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, p. 225, fig. 79.

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