Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)The cylindrical vessel potted with a slightly tapering rim and raised on a short foot, the sides applied with twin stylised dragon handles, covered overall in a pale green-grey glaze suffused with a network of fine crackles.H. 6.5 cmProvenance:- Kunsthandel Joseph M. Morpurgo, Amsterdam (1999)- Collection Drs. Koos de Jong, AmsterdamCompare:- [exhib.cat.] Guan Ware, National Palace Museum, Taipei 1989, no. 36, p. 78 - Orientations, November 1993, pp. 72-75- [exhib.cat.] Possessing the Past. Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei (Wen C. Fong and J.C.Y. Watt), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1996, p. 245, ill. 124Note:Regina Krahl notes the following with regard to this type of stoneware: 'The extremely fine glaze, attractive crackle and thin potting link this [type] closely with the official (guan) ware of the Southern Song dynasty, made in the capital Hangzhou. Its somewhat uneven potting, however, and the fact that at th