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See Mayuyama, Chugoku Bunbutsu Kenbun, pl.87 for a similar vase in the Shaanxi Province Museum, Xian, from the tomb of Li Jingxun (A.D.608) at Liangjiazhuang, Western Suburbs of Xian; two vases in the Historical Museum, Beijing, from a tomb of A.D.610, excavated at Ermencun, Western Suburbs of Xian, illustrated by Koyama, Chugoku Toji, fig.21; and other vases from the tomb of Zhang Shigui, a general active during A.D.633-648, at Liquan county, Shaanxi province, illustrated in Kaogu, 1978, no.3, pl.12, fig.1 and p.175, fig.7. Further examples are illustrated by Mino, Pre-Sung Dynasty Chinese Stonewares in the Royal Ontario Museum, pl.46; by Toller, 'The Origins of Chinese White Porcelain', T.O.C.S. 1971-1973, vol.39, pl.15; by Dexel, Frühe Keramik in China, pl.74B in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol.9, fig.14; and in Sui To No Bijutsu, pl.110.
Compare also the figure of a lady carrying a similar vase, included in the O.C.S. Exhibition of the Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, London, 1955,Catalogue, no.44, pl.6, together with another vase of this form, no.215, both from the Swedish Royal Collections.
See the bronze prototype of this form in the Eumorfopoulos Collection, illustrated by W.P. Yetts, op.cit., vol.I, pl.XLIV, no.A58
Compare also the figure of a lady carrying a similar vase, included in the O.C.S. Exhibition of the Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, London, 1955,Catalogue, no.44, pl.6, together with another vase of this form, no.215, both from the Swedish Royal Collections.
See the bronze prototype of this form in the Eumorfopoulos Collection, illustrated by W.P. Yetts, op.cit., vol.I, pl.XLIV, no.A58