SONG DYNASTY (960-1279) OR LATER

Two similar vases in the Palace Museum, Beijing, have been published, the first of very similar size (14.2 cm. high) and proportions, illustrated in Song Dynasty (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 35; and the second, slightly smaller in size (13.8 cm. high) with a narrower lower body, ibid, no. 36. Another closely related example, similar in proportions to the second Palace Museum example, was included in the exhibition catalogue Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, New York, 1996, pl. 123.