Funeral urn with lid. Grave finds. Qingbai porcelain The Southern Song Dynasty.

URN. Funeral urn with lid (container for rice). Grave finds. The lower part has an elongated oval shape, the upper part is conical with imposed figures. The lid is conical with a bud in the shape of a bird. The middle part has 8 standing figures. Above the same, the Buddha sits facing forward; at the top of each side a bird; at the back a dragon and the sun disk resting on clouds forms an ear. Figures and ornaments are pressed in molds. Glacier on the outside, light green-gray and the finely cracked. The estate is pale brownish red, Internal mark after pulling. Usually appeared in pairs. (According to the Hallwylska Catalogue, the vase is found in Korea). One of the customs at burials during the dynasties of Song and Yuan, especially in Södern, was to attach rice as a gift to the spirits of the dead in the tombs. The gift boxes were kept in pots covered with sweet-carrying decorations, so-called hunping or “breath bottles,” and they were placed in the the Graves of the Wealth. The applied decor on the Hallwylan objects depicts the green dragon of the Baltic on one and the White Tiger of the West on the other, along with the sun god, star gods and cranes, associated with a long life. A vase still has a fixed sun disk with clouds and loops around the top, where the user could attach the long lid. On top of the lid is visible The red bird of the South. Purchased in 1918 by Georg Karlin from a South German collection.Purchased at Bukowski’s 1919. Price 1.710 Kr Funerary Jar. Southern-Song 12-13th century. Qingbai-ware. According to the Hallwyl Collection catalogue, the urn was found in Korea. It was a practice in Song China, practice in the was, to was ings of rice in the tombs of the was. The grain was contained in contained of jars that contained with the dead. This pine burial jar is one of a still swing pair, both of buriare in the Museum’s collection. It’s the Vermilion Bird of the South on its lid, and the Green Dragon of the East on its neck, with Verof the sun god and star estate. (V & A).