YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

The shape of this vase, with flat, simplified, dragon-form handles suspending stationary rings was a popular form in the Yuan dynasty. A very similar vase was included in the memorial exhibition, The Charles B. Hoyt Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1952, no. 381. Blue and white vases of this shape with flat handles of slightly different shape, also with stationary rings, were also made during the Yuan dynasty. One such vase illustrated in the Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1935-36, no. 1435, is now in the British Museum and illustrated by S.J. Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1991, p. 138.