Small Pear-Shaped Vase with Ribbed Walls and Mock-Ring Handles
Chinese
Molded with six bracket-lobes rising from the high ring foot to the wide mouth with flared rim also molded with six bracket-lobes around the lip, the straight neck applied with a pair of mock ring handles, covered with a lustrous pale green glaze continuing over the concave rounded base, the flat knife-pared foot rim left unglazed and the exposed stoneware burnt reddish brown at the margins.
Longquan celadon ware; molded light gray stoneware with applique handles and celadon glaze. From the kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.
Southern Song period (1127-1279) to Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)