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A LONGQUAN CELADON `LOTUS’ BOWL 南宋 龍泉窯青釉蓮瓣式盌 A LONGQUAN CELADON `ARROW’ VASE
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279) 來源: SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The rounded sides are carved in low relief on the exterior with a band of 朝日美術, 東京 The pear-shaped body rises to a tall, slender neck
overlapping lotus petals rising from the slightly tapering ring foot. The bowl is 辻清明 (1927-2008), 東京 flanked by a pair of tubular handles, and is incised
covered inside and out with a glaze of soft blue-green tone. 壺中居, 東京 with a series of bands. The vase is covered overall
6¬ in. (16.7 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box with an even glaze of soft sea-green color.
11Ω in. (29.2 cm.), Japanese wood box
$8,000-12,000
$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE:
Asahi Bijutsu, Tokyo. PROVENANCE:
Tsuji Seimei (1927-2008), Tokyo. Private collection, Toyama.
Kochukyo, Tokyo.

The form of this vase is based on ‘arrow vases’, or
touhu, the primary accessory of a drinking game
which involved throwing all of one's arrows into
the mouth of the vessel. The loser was assessed
a penalty drink for every errant throw.
Too small to actually be used in the drinking
game, the present vase was probably intended
to hold flowers. A pair of Longquan celadon
arrow vases, of the same height, but with wider
necks, was recovered from the tomb of the Yuan
calligrapher Xian Yushu (1251-1302). See Zhang
Yulan, "Hangzhoushi faxian Yuandai Xian Yushu
mu," Wenwu, 1990:9, p. 24, figs. 11-12. Another
similar vase is illustrated in The Scholar as
Collector: Chinese Art at Yale, Yale University Art
Gallery and China Institute in America, New York,
2004, p. 18, fig. 8.

南宋 龍泉窯青釉貫耳瓶
來源:
日本富山市私人珍藏
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