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temple vase

I bought a temple vase about 15 years ago at an antique show, I was told by the dealer that it was a temple vase and that he got it through an estate sale and that he had it for at least 30 years, the vase is 24 1/2 inches tall and 16 inches wide, it has a green glaze and dragons on both sides, I paid $800.00 then, I have not been able to find anything like it sense then to compare, I would appreciate any info, thank you

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Jan 26, 2011
 thank you peter.
by: Anonymous

I will try the web page that you gave and go from there. I do have a lot of Chinese porcelain and will show more photos, thanks again.
Jan 09, 2011
 temple jar
by: peter

Hello,
I'm afraid I don't know much about pottery, but I would like to clarify a few things.
What is a temple vase? I am not sure...but there is something that is called a 'temple jar' in English. You will find a definition in the glossary.

If you do an image search on Google using this Chinese term "將軍罐" (just copy the part within the quotation marks), you will find a lot of pictures of temple jars.
Your item has indeed a shape like those, without the lid. If it never had one, I doubt it can be called a temple jar. I never saw one in pottery form, though. They usually come as porcelain.
I would recommend to try asianart.com. Maybe they have someone on their forum who knows more about this type of pottery jar.

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