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SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY
Details
Two Qingbai Pear-Shaped Vases
Song/Yuan dynasty, 12th-14th century
Both based on metal prototypes, one with fluted body raised on a spreading pedestal foot and applied on the shoulder with two ribbed tubular handles, a collar encircling the neck molded as two rows of petals and the mouth encircled by nine small knobs, covered with a transparent glaze of blue-green tone; the other raised on a pedestal foot and applied with molded mask and ring handles, the transparent blue-toned glaze suffused with fine crackle
8 1/16 and 8¼in. (20.5 and 20.9cm.) high
Falk Collection nos. 63 and 91. (2)
Song/Yuan dynasty, 12th-14th century
Both based on metal prototypes, one with fluted body raised on a spreading pedestal foot and applied on the shoulder with two ribbed tubular handles, a collar encircling the neck molded as two rows of petals and the mouth encircled by nine small knobs, covered with a transparent glaze of blue-green tone; the other raised on a pedestal foot and applied with molded mask and ring handles, the transparent blue-toned glaze suffused with fine crackle
8 1/16 and 8¼in. (20.5 and 20.9cm.) high
Falk Collection nos. 63 and 91. (2)
Provenance
Fluted vase: Mathias Komor, New York, September 1947.
Pear-shaped vase:
V.W. Shriro, Esq, England.
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, December 1964.
Pear-shaped vase:
V.W. Shriro, Esq, England.
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, December 1964.
Exhibited
Lobed vase: The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, 1957, no. 270.