A PAIR OF 'QINGBAI' GU-SHAPED VASES YUAN DYNASTY

each body of archaic bronze form, covered overall with an ice-blue glaze, 14.8cm., 5 7/8 in; together with a pair of 'Qingbai' pear-shaped vases 

Mostra D'Arte Cinese, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1954 (pear-shaped vases, according to label).

Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 649 (gu-shaped vases).

pair of gu-shaped vases: One with a 5 mm chip and two areas of excessive glaze pulling on the rim. Firing flaws and glaze pull around the neck where it joins the raised waist section. Glaze pull around the foot. Craquelure around most of the body. The other with a 1.2 cm shallow chip on the rim associated with a V-shaped hairline crack with another hairline running through the center of the V. Minor firing flaws around the flanges of the raised waist, which also has glaze pull. The foot with a hairline crack running upward, approximately 2 cm. Craquelure around most of the body. pair of pear-shaped vases: Both with craquelure around the upper neck and lower body. One with a potting flaw on the body, 6 mm, fired to a russet color. Both with small chips to the foot.
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