The vase has a compressed globular body on a spreading foot rising to a slender neck with a galleried rim and is decorated on the exterior with bow-string bands and is covered overall with a green glaze, partially degraded with a silvery iridescence.
16 in. (40.5 cm.) high

Warren E. Cox Associates, Inc., no. XM 4254.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections.
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by descent within the family.

Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 9 July-31 October 1987.

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The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 466c59 (March 1987), is consistent with the dating of this lot.