Page 11 - The art of the Chinese potter By Hobson

FRONTISPIECE

Vase with ovoid body moulded in ten lobes, tall slender
neck with flaring mouth, and low foot cut in a leaf and tongue

pattern. On the neck is a carved band of stiff leaves alter-

nately wide and narrow between wheel-made rings : three
concentric rings inside the mouth. Porcelain with thick, white
bubbly glaze with a faint tinge of blue which is accentuated

where the glaze runs thick in the hollows of the form. The

base is unglazed for the most part and discloses a biscuit of
rather granular type which has burnt a reddish brown : there

are the marks of a ring of supports. The form of this beautiful
vase was borrowed by the Corean potters for their celadon.

Ju type. Sung dynasty. H. 10".
In the possession of Mr. H. J. Oppenheim.