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PROPERTY FROM A JAPANESE COLLECTION 元至明十四世紀 龍泉青釉日月八卦紋瓶
A VERY RARE LONGQUAN CELADON VASE
YUAN – MING DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY 來源：
傳神戶白鶴酒造株式会社第七代掌舵人及白鶴美術館
of elegant baluster form rising from a tapered foot to a tall 創辦人嘉納治兵衛（1862-1951年）收藏
waisted neck, moulded around the body with the bagua (Eight 松下幸之助（1894-1989年）收藏
Trigrams), the neck flanked by a pair of handles in the form of
a sun issuing from a wisp of ruyi clouds, covered overall save
for the footring in an unctuous sea-green glaze, Japanese
wood box
30 cm, 11¾ in.
PROVENANCE
Collection of Kanō Jihei (1862-1951), 7th generation of
Hakutsuru Brewery and founder of Hakutsuru Fine Art
Museum, by repute.
Collection of Kōnosuke Matsushita (1894-1989).

HK$ 800,000-1,200,000
US$ 104,000-155,000

From the Yuan dynasty, Longquan potters aimed at adding
interest to their monochrome products through complicated
methods of forming and decorating. Other Longquan celadon
vases of the period with complex handles are known, but the
form of the current vase, where the handles are composed of
a flattened sun issuing from wispy ruyi clouds, is extremely
rare. The only other example appears to be in the Hakutsuru
Fine Art Museum, illustrated in Hakutsuru Bijutsukan kanzohin
senshu [Collection of Hakutsuru Fine Art Museum], Kobe,
2018, p. 47, pl .61. The sun-and-cloud motif also appears
on qingbai funerary vases, such as on a pair dated 1293,
discovered in Guixi county, illustrated in Dated Qingbai Wares
of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 94. The
motif is also found as a handle on Yuan dynasty gold cups, as
seen on an example in the Meiyintang collection, illustrated by
Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection,
London, 1994-2006, vol. 3, no. 23.
The crisp decoration of the bagua motif around the lower body
is a more commonly found design motif on Longquan celadon.
A tripod incense burner of archaistic lian form, moulded with
a band of bagua motifs, assigned to the Yuan dynasty, is
illustrated in Zhu Boqian, ed., Celadons from Longquan Kilns,
Taipei, 1998, pl. 182. See also an incense burner with bagua
motifs sold in our New York rooms, 18th March 2017, lot 1385,
from the collection of Brooks and Dorothy Cofield.

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