PROBABLY SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY

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A CARVED QINGBAI VASE
PROBABLY SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY
The spherical body is carved with a leafy scroll bearing two large blossoms below the cylindrical neck with a double-line band and the flared mouth with a petal-shaped rim. The vase is covered overall with a crackled glaze of pale blue tone.
7 in. (17.7 cm.) high, brocade box

Provenance

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4878.

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Lot Essay

A similarly decorated qingbai vase of this distinctive form is in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, and is illustrated by J. Wirgin in ‘Sung Ceramic Designs,’ B.M.F.E.A. Bulletin No. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 18a. Another qingbai vase of very similar form with incised decoration of fish in rippling water around the body is illustrated in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 270-71, no. 117.

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