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PROPERTY FROM A NORTH AMERICAN PRIVATE
COLLECTION
A ‘LONGQUAN’ CELADON-GLAZED MEIPING
SONG DYNASTY
the narrow foot rising to a subtly waisted lower body then
gradually broadening to a full, rounded shoulder surmounted
by a narrow neck with a lipped rim, the graceful contours
of the proÞ le highlighted by horizontal ribs covering the
surface, covered overall in a soft seafoam-green glaze
pooling and thinning along the ribs and su! used with
craquelure, the recessed base glazed save for the footring
burnt orange from Þ ring
Height 8½ in., 21.6 cm

PROVENANCE
Acquired in Hong Kong, January 1994.
See a pair of slightly smaller Longquan ribbed meiping of
similar shape, each with a cover, sold twice in these rooms,
Þ rst 8th May 1981, lot 248, and later 28th April 1982, lot 228;
a larger meiping and cover excavated in the tomb of Cheng
Daya, dated Þ rst year of Qingyuan, corresponding to 1195, in
Lishui city, Songyang county, Zhejiang province, illustrated
in the exhibition catalogue Heavenly Blue: Southern Song
Celadons, Nezu Museum, Tokyo, 2010, no. 3; and another,
with a shorter neck, in the Cleveland Museum of Art,
published on the museum’s website (coll. no. 1957.52).
Meiping of this type vary in shape. For example, see a
slightly larger meiping and cover with straight tapered sides,
in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, illustrated in G. St. G.
M. Gompertz, Chinese Celadon Wares, London & Boston,
1980, pl. 92; another sold in these rooms, 22nd September
2005, lot 312; one with a more ß attened shoulder, from
the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat, sold in these
rooms, 7th November 1980, lot 152; one of similar size as
the present vase, lacking a cover, from the collection of Mrs.
Alfred Clark, sold in our London rooms, 25th March 1975, lot
48; another larger in size, sold in these rooms, 4th December
1984, lot 307; and a smaller meiping of baluster form sold in
our Hong Kong rooms, 17th November 1975, lot 182.
Existing evidence suggests that meiping of this type
continued to be made during the Yuan dynasty. See a slightly
larger example without a cover, recovered from a ship
sunk o! the cost of Korea in the Þ rst half of the fourteenth
century, exhibited in Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics
Found o! Sinan Coast, National Museum of Korea, Seoul,
1977, cat. no. 41. Compare another example, attributed
to the Yuan dynasty, in the Baur Collection, published in
John Ayers, The Baur Collection Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1,
Geneva, 1968, cat. no. A106; and a further one, attributed
to Yuan-Ming dynasty, published in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese
Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1965, cat.
no. 151.
$ 60,000-80,000
⬳ġġġ漵㱱䩘曺慱⻎䲳㠭䒞
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