A FINE AND VERY RARE GREEN-GLAZED BALUSTER VASE

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A FINE AND VERY RARE GREEN-GLAZED BALUSTER VASE
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The rounded body carved with four tiers of overlapping lotus petals above the flared base, the shoulders set with six trapezoidal lug-shaped handles below the waisted neck incised with two double-line bands rising to a cup-shaped mouth, covered overall in a thin crackled olive-green glaze pooling at the recesses and above the foot, the flat base unglazed-- 18 3/4in. (47.5cm.) high, box

拍品专文

A vase in the Shanghai Museum of very similar in shape, with a cup-shaped mouth, the same arrangement of lug handles but with a single band of lotus petals incised below the handles is illustrated by Mino and Tsiang, Ice and Green Clouds, fig. 37b. Two related examples but without the carved band of lotus petals and evenly spaced handles are also illustrated as figs. 37 and 37a, both dated to the first half of the 6th century, the first in the Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; the other thought to be from an Eastern Wei Tomb at Xiaomachang, Wuqiaoxian, Hebei province