Vase with serrated garland below the mouth

One of the Yuan potters' many great contributions to sculpting ceramics was the creation of small ears and ingenious handles for vases, which breaks up the monotonous, solid form, and the introduction of exquisite openwork. A rounded bar was first coiled into various shaped ears, then attached to the neck of the vessel. The design, energetic in movement, was featured on many qingbai vases (CGK Zenshu 1984 vol. 16: 153, 169; Ministry of Culture and Information 1983: 86). With rare projected garlands and the cloud-head-shaped ears flanked by roundels around its neck, this ringed-bodied vase exhibits the supreme inspiration of Yuan ceramics.