A Ding-type white-glazed pear-shaped vase 12th/13th century 23.6 cm high. Provenance: R & V Tregaskis, Sydney, 18 June 2002, no. 2071 (invoice). On loan to the Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney, 3 Jun 2003 (receipt) Compare a white-glazed long necked bottle vase, Jin dynasty, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by S.Valenstein, The Herzman Collection of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1992, p.36, no.25. See also another example in the British Museum is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol.5, Tokyo, 1981, no.55. A similar white-glazed long-necked bottle vase, Jin dynasty, was sold at Christie's New York, 19 March 2008, lot 530.