Item No.: 1561
Name: A Guan ware grayish-blue-glazed cong-form vase
Period: Northern Song dynasty
Height: 18.3 cm
This cong-form vase adapts an archaic model into a ceramic vessel. Its grayish-blue glaze brings the outline into focus, encouraging attention to proportion and structure. Viewed alongside other archaistic forms in the exhibition, it offers a way to consider how ceramic makers could draw on inherited shapes while giving them a new material expression.