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Small Pear-Shaped Vase with Ribbed Walls and Mock-Ring Handles

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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.
Department of Asian Art Gerhard Mennen Williams (1911-1988) acquired object in the Philippines while serving as U.S. Ambassador in 1968-1969. Collection of G. Mennem Williams Gross Pointe Farms MI (1968/69-1988) Collection of Mrs. G. Mennem Williams (1988-2000) J.J. Lally & Co. New York (2000-2009) Mrs. Arthur K. Solomon Cambridge MA (2009) purchased from J.J. Lally & Co. (2009) Gift to Arthur M. Sackler Museum Harvard Art Museum (2009) Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Mariot Fraser Solomon
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Title: Small Pear-Shaped Vase with Ribbed Walls and Mock-Ring Handles
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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.

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