Page 344 - The art of the Chinese potter By Hobson

PLATE LXXIII

Vase with ovoid body, tall, slender neck, and cup-shaped

mouth. On the shoulder are two small loop-handles and five

hexagonal tubes. These tubes do not communicate with the

interior of the vase and may possibly have served to hold joss

sticks. Greyish porcellanous stoneware with a delicate grey-
green glaze, frosted in parts with a dull yellowish deposit due

to decay during burial or occurring during the firing. The

sides are partitioned by ribs into five vertical panels, in each
of which is a stiff peony spray carved in low relief with etched
details ; and above are faintly etched scrolls. Base glazed over,
with a ring of sand -marks.

Northern Chinese celadon. Sung dynasty. H. 13- 7".
In the possession of Mr. O. C. Raphael.