GUAN-TYPE HANDLED 'HU' FORM VASE YUAN/MING DYNASTY OR LATER 元/明或以後 官釉貫耳瓶 the pear-shaped body of rounded archaic bronze hu form, raised on a moulded pedestal foot, with a double band encircling the upper body and another on the neck below the pair of tubular handles, covered overall with a pale grey-blue glaze (17.5cm high) Qty: (1) Provenance: Formerly in a private Swedish collection, acquired from Bukowskis, Stockholm, Sweden in 1986, The Collection of Gustaf Hilleström. Published: Exhibited in the exhibition 'Orientalisk Forntid', from Gustaf Hilleström Collection, at Bukowskis, 27 December 1986 - 25 January 1987, lot 174. p. 19. Note: The original exhibition catalogue dated this vase to the Yuan-Ming dynasty. Translation of the original catalogue: "174. VASE, bell-shaped with tubular handles, bulbous mouth, light green glaze. Yuan-Ming. Height 17.5 cm. Foot chip, glaze crack."