Page 220 - The art of the Chinese potter By Hobson

PLATE XLII

Square vase of bottle shape with swelling body and neck

almost straight ; two handles in form of elephant heads.

Porcelain with bubbly felspathic glaze of rich olive-green

colour. The base is glazed, but the raw edge of the foot-rim

shows a white porcelain which has burnt red in places.

This vase, which is remarkable for its unusual glaze, is

reputed to be Kuan ware, and, according to some critics,
Kuan ware of the Sung dynasty. But the term Kuan in the
sense of " imperial " is also applied to wares of the Ming

period, and it is quite possible that this is an Imperial piece

of the Ming dynasty, a supposition to which the nature of the

base lends colour.

H. 9-7 5 ".

In the possession of Mr. F. N. Schiller.