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A LONGQUAN CELADON GLAZED JAR AND COVER
Northern Song dynasty
The jar potted with a cupped rim, waisted neck, a pair of small loop
handles on the shoulder and vertical striations incised into the walls
of the ovoid body, the densely crazed and degraded glaze of dark
olive green hue applied everywhere except for the lip of the rim and
the shallow recessed base within the tall foot; the conical cover,
possibly assembled but of the same period, similarly line-incised and
cut as lotus petals along the exterior edges, the glaze of similar hue
and crazing.
12 1/4in (31cm) height including cover

US$1,200 - 1,800

For a similarly shaped jar from the Northern Song period, see Zhu
Boqian, Longquan yao qing ci [Celadons form Longquan Kilns]
(Taipei, 1998), cat. no. 58, p. 97.

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