A BLUE AND WHITE TUBLAR-HANDLED VASE (HU)H:22.8cm,W:15.2cm,Diam.of mouth:10.9cmThe form of this vase is an adaptation of archaic ritual bronze vessels, intended for use during ancestor worship ceremonies. Features like the angular ridge separating a concave neck from a convex body can already by traced to vessels of zun shape and tubular handles to vessels of hu form from the end of the Shang period in the late 2nd millennium BC.