Lot Essay
A similar flask, minus its pedestal foot, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Charles B. Hoyt Collection, is illustrated in Unearthing China's Past, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1973, p. 134, no. 63, where the authors, Jan Fontein and Tung Wu, also illustrate, p. 135, fig. 65, a similar flask that still retains a foot similar to that seen on the present vessel, excavated from a Jin dynasty tomb near Nanking.