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This Beautiful masterpiece Guan Yao S. Song Dynasty Vase above has a thick bluish green glaze that was achieved by putting on several applications of glaze and successive firings. This thick coat of glaze rounded off any sharp angles of the form. The form is well balanced clearly done by a master potter. The body is very finely potted and thinner than the glaze, you can see this on the base were the glaze is pooling. The Vase has the official government mark on the base. Xiu Nei Si refers to the Department of palace supply, under the relocated Northern Song Administration, which was driven south to Hangzhou in 1127A.D.
Measures approx. 9" tall. ppjrs