MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

A vase of this shape and approximate size, but covered in a crackled, pale bluish-grey glaze, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Obtaining Refined Enjoyment: The Qianlong Emperor's Taste in Ceramics, Taipei, 2012, pp. 156-57, no. 59, where it is dated Ming dynasty, 16th-17th century. The base of the Taipei vase is inscribed with a Qianlong poem describing the relationship between Guan and Ge wares.