A QINGBAI MOLDED BALUSTER VASE

SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY

Details

A QINGBAI MOLDED BALUSTER VASE
Song/Yuan dynasty, 13th century
The compressed center of the body with sharp edges bordered by chrysanthemum petal bands, with a herring-bone band at the base of the neck, covered with a thin glaze of good pale blue tone continuing over the everted mouth and stopping at the top of the splayed pedestal foot
8¼in. (21cm.) high

Provenance

Hans A. Öström Collection, Stockholm.
Professor Jan Hellner Collection.
Peter Boode, The Hague.

Lot Essay

Compare two similar molded Qingbai vases, the first from The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated by J. Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Design, London, 1979, pl. 33a; the second from the Falk Collection, sold in these rooms, 20 September 2001, lot 99.

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