An extremely rare and fine pear-shaped vase, the globular body atop a high barbed foot rising to a flared barbed mouth-rim, often referred to as a skirt mouth rim popular in the Jin dynasty, the whole ribbed to the barb end-points. At the indentation of the neck are two animal heads holding pendant rings from their mouths. The vase is covered in an unctuous, transparent sea-foam green celadon glaze known by the Japanese term kinuta, meaning mallet, for a very famous Song mallet vase that was covered in an incomparable fine celadon colored glaze revered by the Japanese.
元代 Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)
Height: 10 5/16" (26.2cm)  Width: 5" (12.7cm)
Condition: Excellent, two minor firing cracks at rim, one in the body, several glaze skips
Provenance: Sotheby's, Vermeer & Griggs Collection No.74, acquired in 1980
Please refer to item #CE-325-74 when inquiring.