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Lot Essay
It is extremely rare to find vases of this type with a cover. A very similar bottle-vase without a cover in the Carl Kempe Collection is illustrated by B. Gyllensvärd in Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 118, no. 359. Also, see, a similar version, without cover, in the Idemitsu Museum, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, col. pl. 84. The same vase was previously illustrated in Teiyō hakuji (White Porcelain of Dingyao), Tokyo, 1983, p. 68, no. 112.
Another similar white porcelain bottle-vase from a mural tomb in Luoyang, Henan province is illustrated in Wenwu, 1992, No. 12, p. 49, pl. 39, with a line drawing, pl. 34-2. The same vase is illustrated again by Zhang (ed.), Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China), vol. 12, Henan, Beijing, 2007, p. 175, no. 175, described as Jin dynasty and is currently in the collection of the Luoyang Museum.
A silver bottle-vase and cover of the same shape as the present vase, in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, is illustrated by R. Ward and P. Fidler (eds.) in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, New York, 1993, p. 339.
Another similar white porcelain bottle-vase from a mural tomb in Luoyang, Henan province is illustrated in Wenwu, 1992, No. 12, p. 49, pl. 39, with a line drawing, pl. 34-2. The same vase is illustrated again by Zhang (ed.), Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China), vol. 12, Henan, Beijing, 2007, p. 175, no. 175, described as Jin dynasty and is currently in the collection of the Luoyang Museum.
A silver bottle-vase and cover of the same shape as the present vase, in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, is illustrated by R. Ward and P. Fidler (eds.) in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, New York, 1993, p. 339.