A YINGQING TALL FUNERARY VASE AND COVER, the tapering middle section applied with a frieze of figures below a gui dragon, a cockerel, a hound, a phoenix and a turtle, above the plain slender oviform lower part, the neck with a foliate rib divided by four loop handles, the domed cover with four similar handles and surmounted by a bird finial, all under a crackled glaze of pale bluish-green tone (finial restored, part of tail missing), Song Dynasty

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A YINGQING TALL FUNERARY VASE AND COVER, the tapering middle section applied with a frieze of figures below a gui dragon, a cockerel, a hound, a phoenix and a turtle, above the plain slender oviform lower part, the neck with a foliate rib divided by four loop handles, the domed cover with four similar handles and surmounted by a bird finial, all under a crackled glaze of pale bluish-green tone (finial restored, part of tail missing), Song Dynasty
81cm. high

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