A BLUE-GLAZED ALTAR VESSEL AND COVER, dou , the shallow cylindrical body raised on a waisted stem with a horizontal rib at the mid-section, moulded with archaistic geometrical patterns, the domed cover decorated with ware-pattern and surmounted by an openwork rope-twist finial, all under rich deep blue glaze, moulded Qianlong sealmark and of the period 25 cm. high A similar altar vessel, made for use at the Temple of the Earth in Beijing and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics , pl. 47
A BLUE-GLAZED ALTAR VESSEL AND COVER, dou , the shallow cylindrical body raised on a waisted stem with a horizontal rib at the mid-section, moulded with archaistic geometrical patterns, the domed cover decorated with ware-pattern and surmounted by an openwork rope-twist finial, all under rich deep blue glaze, moulded Qianlong sealmark and of the period 25 cm. high A similar altar vessel, made for use at the Temple of the Earth in Beijing and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics , pl. 47
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