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23. A Qingbai Glazed P orcelain Vase
Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1127–1279)

with spherical body surmounted by a short neck with flaring flower-shaped mouth divided into
six petal-lobes by slender ribs rising to sharp points between downturned rounded petal-tips,
decorated with freely incised floral scroll on the body below a double-line border on the rounded
shoulder and with a wider double-line collar around the neck, the white porcelain covered with
a translucent glaze of bright blue tone pooling to show more intense color on the spreading foot,
around the mouth rim, and in the incised lines of the decoration, the recessed base unglazed and
showing a reddish-tan ring from the firing support.
Height 6 ⁄2 inches (16.5 cm)
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A similarly decorated Qingbai vase of this distinctive form in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, is illustrated
by Wirgin in ‘Sung Ceramic Designs,’ B.M.F.E.A. Bulletin No. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 18a.
Another Qingbai vase of very similar form with incised decoration of fish in rippling water around the body is illustrated in
Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 270–271, no. 117.
Compare also the Qingbai vase of similar form carved with peony scroll on a slightly taller body of more ovoid form, widely
exhibited and frequently published in Japan, illustrated in the catalogue of the exhibition shown at the Tobu Museum of
Art, Tokyo; the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka; and the Hagi Uragami Museum, Hagi; entitled Sōji: shinpin to yobareta
yakimono (Song Ceramics), Tokyo, 1999, p. 85, no. 48.

南宋 青白刻花荷葉口瓶 高 16.5 厘米