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ANOTHER PROPERTY
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A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON GUAN-TYPE OCTAGONAL
STEM CUP
YUAN-MING DYNASTY (1279-1644)
The cup has flaring, faceted sides supported on a spreading stem foot Fujioka Ryoichi (1909-1991) was a prominent Japanese scholar
encircled by a narrow collar, and is covered overall with a clear glaze of of Chinese ceramics. He worked for the Kyoto National Museum
pale olive tone suffused with an extensive, icy crackle that thins on the and the Nara National Museum, and participated in compilation of
raised areas. Together with a catalogue, Inki: hai, wan, taku tokubetsu several seminal works on Chinese ceramics including the Toji Taikei,
tenji (The Special Exhibition of Vessels: Cups, Bowls and Cup Stands), Heibonsha, 1972-1978.
Kuboso Museum, Izumi, 1989.
The unusual shape of this rare stem cup is similar to that of a larger
3º in. (8.4 cm.) high, Japanese wood box inscribed by ceramic scholar
(13.3 cm.) Longquan celadon stem cup with molded panels left in the
Fujioka Ryoichi (1909-1991)
biscuit, illustrated in Splendour of Ancient Chinese Art: Selections from
the Collections of T. T. Tsui Galleries of Chinese Art Worldwide, Hong
$20,000-30,000
Kong, 1996, pl. 38, where it is dated Yuan.
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Japan. Guan-type wares produced at the Longquan kilns show considerable
variation. Some examples have dark, slate-grey bodies and crackled,
EXHIBITED: greyish-blue glaze while others imitate the cracked glaze and form
Izumi, Kuboso Museum, Inki: hai, wan, taku tokubetsu tenji (The Special of Guan but have the light grey stoneware bodies typical of standard
Exhibition of Vessels: Cups, Bowls and Cup Stands), 1989. Longquan ware. The present stem cup, with its golden-brown glaze,
is of a type known as beishoku (‘golden rice grain color’) in Japanese.
LITERATURE:
A rare beishoku Guanyao vase from the Tsuneichi Inoue Collection,
Kuboso Museum, Inki: hai, wan, taku tokubetsu tenji (The Special
dated to the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279), was sold at
Exhibition of Vessels: Cups, Bowls and Cup Stands), Izumi, 1989, no.
Sotheby’s, London, 13 May 2015, lot 32.
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