Your Price: $ 200.00     We also accept Checks and Money Orders.

A Chinese Jun kiln vase, measuring 9 - 10 ins tall and 5 ins. across. The vase is made of yellow, sandy earthenware known as sha t’ai (what Hobson calls “soft Ch’un”). The foot is short, flared, and unglazed upwards to 2-3 inches. The body rises in a gradual flare to a gourd shape that tapers in at the shoulder and flares into a 6-petal mouth. There is an applied petal design around the shoulder as well as applied designs of paired fish on either side of the upper body. Two lion’s head handles with pierced nostrils adorn the sides.
The rich blue body glaze is thick and opalescent. It has some purple splotches and is finely crackled in different areas. The mouth is brown as are the upper edges of the applied designs where the glaze ran off during firing. The clay body can be seen on the unglazed portions, lying beneath what appears to be encrusted dirt from burial. There is one linear crack in the side from firing that measures approximately 5 inches.