SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279)

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AN UNUSUAL MOLDED QINGBAI VASE
SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279)
Of baluster form, the ovoid body is molded with two bands of floral sprays, and is surmounted by a tall neck encircled by a bow-string band below the out-curved, petal-lobed mouth rim. The vase is covered with an even, pale blue glaze which pools slightly in the recesses, and the base is unglazed.
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high

Provenance

William Clayton, London, by 1962.

Literature

Advertised: Oriental Art, Winter 1962, Vol. VIII, no. 4.

Lot Essay

A qingbai vase of similar form, also with molded floral design, but of slightly smaller size (14.4 cm. high), in the Kwan Collection, is illustrated in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 274-75, no. 119.

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