A Rare Large Carved Qingbai Vase

SOUTHERN SONG/YUAN DYNASTY

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A Rare Large Carved Qingbai Vase
Southern Song/Yuan Dynasty
The ovoid body raised on a spreading foot and carved with an allover pattern of peony scroll bearing three large blossoms, below a carved petal band encircling the cylindrical neck surmounted by the trumpet mouth with petal-cut rim, covered overall with a crackled glaze of pale blue tone
16½in. (41.9cm.) high

Lot Essay

This appears to be an unusually large example of this form of vase. Smaller examples, measuring between 22.5 and 28.5 cm. high, include one in the exhibition, Masterworks of Eastern Ceramics, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, 1994, no. 41; one from the Baur Collections, Geneva, illustrated by Fontein and Wu, Unearthing China's Past, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1973, p. 201, no. 108; and another carved with cloud whorls, illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji; Song Yuan qingbai ci, (The Great Treasury of Chinese Ceramics, Song and Yuan Qingbai Porcelain), Shanghai, 1984, vol. 16, no. 143.

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