Lot Essay
Previously sold in London, 10 July 1979, lot 127, and again, 12 December 1989, lot 88 for the British Rail Pension Fund.
This vase illustrates the transition from Southern Song yingqing wares to the Yuan style. The glaze is less blue in cast and is very much closer to the glaze on Yuan blue and white wares. The design off flying geese recall jades and metalwork of the Yuan period.
A bottle of this design in the Cincinnati Art Museum was included in the Cleveland Museum of Art Exhibition of Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty, 1968, Catalogue, no. 112. A related vase from the Royal Ontario Museum collection decorated with a phoenix in relief is also mentioned, ibid.
(US$100,000-130,000)
This vase illustrates the transition from Southern Song yingqing wares to the Yuan style. The glaze is less blue in cast and is very much closer to the glaze on Yuan blue and white wares. The design off flying geese recall jades and metalwork of the Yuan period.
A bottle of this design in the Cincinnati Art Museum was included in the Cleveland Museum of Art Exhibition of Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty, 1968, Catalogue, no. 112. A related vase from the Royal Ontario Museum collection decorated with a phoenix in relief is also mentioned, ibid.
(US$100,000-130,000)