the ovoid lobed body rising from a short spreading foot to a tall waisted neck with everted rim, set at either side of the shoulder and lower body with a pair of lug handles, covered overall with an ivory-white glaze.

Provenance: L. Michon, Paris, (paper label to the base).

Exhibited: Kunst Industri Museet, Copenhagen, 1950, n. cat. no.

Exhibition of Chinese Art, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1954, cat. no. 366.

The Ceramic Art of China, The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1971, cat. no. 60, pl. 38.

Literature: Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 388.

The World's Great Collections. Oriental Ceramics, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 98.

Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, pl. 590.

Sotheby's. Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork, Early Gold and Silver; Early Chinese White, Green and Black Wares, London, 14 May 2008

NDB: Cf a smaller vase in National Palace Museum, Beijing.

A white stoneware 'Melon' vase, Five Dynasties (907-960), high 23.5cm, diameter 7.6cm, foot diameter 10.1cm. National Palace Museum, Beijing