Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)The pear-shaped body raised on a splayed cylindrical foot, the neck with dish-shaped rim, the shoulder applied with twin mask handles, the body moulded with a frieze containing dragons chasing the flaming pearl, covered with a pale beige glaze suffused with a fine crackle and stopping short above the foot revealing the buff.H. 22.7 cmProvenance:- Collection Dr. F.K.D. Bosch- Algemene Ethnografica- en Kunsthandel Aalderink, Amsterdam (1996)- Collection Drs. Koos de Jong, AmsterdamCompare:- Chinese Ceramics. Song Yuan Dynasty, Taipei, 1997, p. 362- He Li, Chinese Ceramics, London, 1996, p. 178, fig. 372Note:These kind of vases were used as funerary gifts, mingqi. The dragon symbolises the East.