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A ‘LONGQUAN’ CELADON-GLAZED BOTTLE 南宋 龍泉窰青釉長頸瓶
VASE, SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY
Height 5⅞ in., 15 cm 來源：
William Roy Hodgson上校 (1892-1958) 收
PROVENANCE
藏，1950年代購於東京
Collection of Colonel William Roy Hodgson (1892-1958),
acquired in Tokyo in the 1950s.
展覽:
EXHIBITED 《中國陶瓷：由唐至宋》，馬錢特，倫敦，2022
Chinese Ceramics Tang to Song, Marchant, London, 2022, 年，編號41
cat. no. 41.
This charming vase exemplifies the refinement of the classic
Southern Song aesthetic, embodying ideals of simplicity
and harmony in its unassuming yet elegant shape which
perfectly complements the attractive, lustrous glaze.
Suzanne G. Valenstein in A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics,
New York, 1989, p. 99, suggests that the rapid refinement
of craftsmanship at the Longquan kilns during the Southern
Song dynasty is to be attributed to the court extending
its patronage to kilns outside the capital city, Hangzhou,
probably including kilns in Longquan.
A vase of this type is in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
illustrated in Tianxia Longquan: Longquan qingci yu quanqiu
hua / Longquan of the World: Longquan Celadon and
Globalization, vol. 2, Beijing, 2019, cat. no. 6; another from
the collections of Mrs Alfred Clark and Edward T. Chow,
illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the
Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, pl. 555, was
sold in our London rooms, 16th December 1980, lot 299,
and again in our Hong Kong rooms, 20th November 1985,
lot 5; one illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu
Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 456; two illustrated in Bo
Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection,
Stockholm, 1964, pls 96-97; another illustrated in Brian
McElney, Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1, Museum of East Asian
Art, Bath, cat. no. 96; one in the Asian Art Museum, San
Francisco, illustrated in He Li, Chinese Ceramics: A New
Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, pl. 272; one
previously included in The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin
L. Gordon, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, J.J. Lally &
Co., New York, 2009, cat. no. 22, and sold in these rooms,
16th March 2016, lot 251. Mason Wang in Song Ceramics:
From the Laiyantang Collection / Songci wushi nian:
Laiyantang zhencang, Singapore, 2010, pl. 38, illustrates
a closely related vase alongside a silver vase of the same
form excavated at Pengzhou, Sichuan province in 1993,
suggesting this form to have come from silverware.
Colonel Willian Roy Hodgson was an Australian solider,
public servant and diplomat who was involved in the
formation of the United National General Assembly. The
present lot was purchased during his time in Tokyo on the
advice of Koyama Fujio, who was the former curator at the
Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo.
⊖ $ 40,000-50,000

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