Page 136 - The art of the Chinese potter By Hobson

PLATE XXI

Vase of slender baluster form, eight-lobed, with tall neck

and spreading foot ; the mouth expands and the lip is turned
over in eight foliations. Hard porcellanous ware of reddish
tone with dressing of white slip and iridescent green glaze,
which has scaled off in places. The graceful lobed form and
foliate mouth of this vase are borrowed from a Han bronze
known as the k'uei hua p'ing or mallow flower vase. It must

have taxed the skill of the Tang potter to render this form of

vase in clay.

T'ang dynasty. H. 1275".
In the possession of Mr. George Eumorfopoulos.