YUAN/MING DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY

Several vases of this form without added decorative motifs are published. Two undecorated vases with very similar flattened ribbed handles dated to the 13th/14th century are in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, London, 1986, pp. 220-221, nos. 200 and 201. One in the Metropolitan Museum is illustrated in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The World's Great Collections Oriental Ceramics vol. 12, fig. 63. Two other vases were sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3821, and 30 November 2011, lot 3008.