Lot Essay
Cf. similar examples of this archaistic vase, one from the Edward T. Chow Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 503; one from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, included in the Hoyt Memorial Exhibition, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 469; and another exhibited at the National Museum of History, Taipei, Chinese Ceramics of Eight Dynasties, 1987, illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 75. The shape and glaze of this vase are based on Southern Song guanyao prototypes, such as the vase illustrated in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 1993, p. 297 (bottom right).