An exceedingly rare guan-glazed octagonal bottle vase, Song dynasty or later | 宋或較晚 官釉八方弦紋盤口瓶

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An exceedingly rare guan-glazed octagonal bottle vase, 

Song dynasty or later

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宋或較晚 官釉八方弦紋盤口瓶

the finely potted octagonal body of compressed globular form, rising from a short spreading foot to a tall ribbed tapering neck with broad everted rim, covered overall in a thick soft bluish-grey glaze suffused with a matrix of golden crackles

h. 22 cm