Cockscomb vase

Cockscomb vases with holes on the top handle can be further classified into single- and double-holed varieties. This single-holed type displays a wide body on a flat base or a footring, the body is oblate toward the top and rounded toward the bottom, with a cylindrical mouth, and a crown with a pointed top whose hole serves as a handle and holds a rope which ties the vessel to a stopper for the mouth. Glazed in white or green, this type recovered from late tenth- to early eleventh-century tombs in Liaoning (KGXB 1956.3: pl. 6.1, 2), was the basic pilgrim flask shape from which the double-holed variety was developed.