Details
The heavily potted vase has an ovoid body carved in relief with blossoming peony branches below a band of incised upright plantain leaves on the tall cylindrical neck that flares very slightly towards the rim, and it is covered with a crackled glaze of olive-green color that continues over the mouth rim and stops above the foot, and also covers the base.
1834 in. (47.6 cm.) high


Provenance
Samuel T. Peters (1854-1912) Collection, New York.
Warren E. Cox Associates, Inc., New York, 17 February 1965.
Exhibited
On loan: Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, May 1981-February 1992.
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