Description: Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
The oval vessel modelled as a granary with a rectangular opening flanked by scrolls, the body modelled with horizontal ribs, the domed cover with applied nodes, scrollwork ribs and surmounted by a lotus bud finial, overall covered in a bluish white glaze.
H. 29.5 cm
Provenance:
- Parthenon Gallery, London (2003)
- Collection Drs. Koos de Jong, Amsterdam
Compare:
- Chinese Ceramics Song-Yuan, Taipei 1997, p. 388
- [exhib.cat.] Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art , Hong Kong 1994, no. 96, p. 229