The first, a small pear-shaped vase with a wide flared neck, is covered overall with a creamy-white glaze; the second, a small tripod jarlet, is potted with a lobed body supported on three small feet, and applied on the sides with shell-form fixed-ring handles; the third, a miniature gu-form vase, is molded on the raised midsection with a key-fret band between leaf-lappets on the flared neck and foot; the fourth, a lobed square form greyish-white-glazed ge-type water pot of square section is inscribed on the base with an apocryphal Chenghua mark in underglaze blue.
3³⁄₄ in. (9.6 cm.) high; 2¹⁄₄ in. (5.7 cm.) high; 3 in. (7.6 cm.) high; 2¹⁄₄ in. (5.7 cm.) wide

First, second and third:
Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858-1937) Collection, Chicago, before 1925.
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned as the Collection of Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870-1920) in 1925.

Fourth:
Mrs. Siegfried G. Schmidt Collection, before 1964.
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned in 1964.

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