A Ding-type white-glazed pear-shaped vase

12th/13th century

12th/13th century
The elegant pear-shaped body rising from a short splayed foot to a tall flaring neck with an everted rim, covered overall with a smooth creamy white glaze except the foot ring and base to reveal the white body, calligraphic collector's mark on the base, fitted box. 23cm (9 1/8in) high. (2).

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Provenance: acquired from R & V Tregaskis, Sydney, on 18 June 2002, no.2071
The Reid Collection

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Compare a white-glazed long necked bottle vase, Jin dynasty, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by S.Valenstein, The Herzman Collection of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1992, p.36, no.25. See also another example in the British Museum is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol.5, Tokyo, 1981, no.55.

A similar white-glazed long-necked bottle vase, Jin dynasty, was sold at Christie's New York, 19 March 2008, lot 530.