a white-glazed pear-shaped vase (yuhuchunping) Song dynasty

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Description

of elegant classic pear-shape with a slender neck flaring to a trumpet mouth, supported on a short splayed foot, covered overall in a rich creamy-white glaze, the foot left unglazed revealing the crisp white body

Provenance

Christie's Hong Kong, 23rd March 1993, lot 704.

Catalogue Note

Compare a similar vase illustrated by S. J. Vainher, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, British Museum, London, 1991, p. 89, no. 66, as well as a smaller vase also in the British Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, 1981, vol. 5, no. 55.