The vase is decorated on the body with alternating large and small molded floral appliques of apsaras, animal masks, lions and flowers and is covered with a green glaze that has degraded in areas with a silvery iridescence.
22½ in. (57.5 cm.) high

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 form the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 1987.

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The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 466a29 ( March 1987), is consistent with the dating of this lot.