Page 103 - Yamanaka co Auction catalog

17 4-"OSTRICH-EGG" VASE (Yuan)
Almost the counterpart in shape and decoration of the
famous vase in the Brinkley collection, which subsequently
was in the Waggaman collection and sold in New York at
the dispersal of that collection in 1905; also of the vase
owned by Mr. Samuel T. Peters, loaned to the Japan So-
ciety's exhibition, New York, 1914; but the glaze instead
of being shagreened in the orange-skin style, giving the
"ostrich-egg" surface, is smooth and brilliant over a finely
defined crackle, its colors being a soft cream and light
buff. The vase is made in representation of an ancient
bronze, and carries a wide band of archaic conventional
decoration in low relief in the paste, and a ring of bosses
around the shoulder. The glaze is carried to the interior
and underneath the foot. Has carved teakwood five-legged
stand.
Height} 16% inches.