The first, a small bottle vase, is incised on the body with a ruyi-head band below upright leaf-lappets on the neck; the second, a bottle vase, has a bulbous mouth with lipped rim; the third, a miniature vase, is molded around the body and the cylindrical neck with bow-string bands in imitation of bamboo, together with a white-glazed soft-paste pear-shaped vase.
5 in. (12.8 cm.) high; 7¹⁄₄ in. (18.5 cm.) high; 4 in. (10 cm.) high; 7³⁄₄ in. (19.5 cm.) high

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

Second, third and fourth:
Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858-1937) Collection, Chicago, 1924.
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned as the Collection of Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870-1920) in 1924.

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