A VERY RARE AND LARGE DEHUA RETICULATED VASE

A slightly larger (38.5 cm.) Dehua vase of similar shape and with similar reticulated decoration, but lacking the mask handles, the band of band of pierced circles near the foot, and the gilt-decorated bands, is illustrated by R. H. Blumenfield in Blanc de Chine: The Great Porcelain of Dehua, Berkeley, 2002, p. 37, where it is dated early to mid-seventeenth century.