A Qingbai Bronze-Form Vase

YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY

細節

A Qingbai Bronze-Form Vase
Yuan dynasty, 13th-14th century
Of pear-shaped form tapering towards the stepped pedestal foot, the lower body incised with a double-line band repeated on the neck above and below the pair of flat dragon-form handles suspending flat attached rings, covered overall with a semi-transparent glaze of pale blue tone continuing over the upright rim
11 3/16in. (28.4cm.) high
Falk Collection no. 60.

拍品專文

The shape of this vase, with flat, simplified, dragon-form handles suspending stationary rings was a popular form in the Yuan dynasty. A very similar vase was included in the memorial exhibition, The Charles B. Hoyt Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1952, no. 381. Blue and white vases of this shape with flat handles of slightly different shape, also 'suspending' stationary rings, were also made during the Yuan dynasty. One such vase illustrated in the Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1935-6, pl. 1435, is now in the British Museum and illustrated by S.J. Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1991, p. 138.