Yuan vase in under Junyao purple splashed glaze. Height: 26.7cm.Yuan Dynasty (1206–1368 AD) when China was under the rule of the Mongols, Qinghua porcelain appeared. Under the same cultural influence as Yuan Dynasty music had, themes of popular arts, city folk arts and the multifaceted ethnic arts soon saturated porcelain-making crafts. Although it was still not the mainstream, the newer colored porcelain which emphasized synthetic decorations was on totally opposite extremes with plain porcelain, in which people once looked for natural beauty and subtleness. The brilliant and richly adorned colored porcelain gained not only the favors of the imperial courts, but were also exported to Europe and America far across the seas. During the thousand years after the advent.

In good condition

10.5 x 4.75 in

2.32 lb