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A LONGQUAN CELADON BOTTLE
VASE
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
The vase is sturdily potted with a pear-shaped body,
decorated with two angular mythical beast-head
handles, each suspending a circular ring. The neck
is decorated with two bow-strings, one raised and
the other incised, and the body with a further raised
bow string.
9¿ in. (23.5 cm.) high, Japanese paulownia wood
box
HK$150,000-250,000
US$20,000-32,000
PROVENANCE
A Japanese private family collection, Kyoto,
acquired in the first half of the 20th century
The Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul has in its
collection two similar vases dated to the 13th-14th
century illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi
Saray Museum, London, 1986, pp. 220-221, nos. 200
and 201. A further vase in the Metropolitan Museum
is illustrated in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, The World’s Great Collections Oriental Ceramics,
vol. 12, fig. 63.
Compare a similar vase dated to the Yuan-Ming
dynasty, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2012,
lot 4248.

元 龍泉窯青釉獸耳銜環玉壺春瓶
來源
日本京都家族珍藏，於二十世紀上半葉入藏

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