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PROPERTY FROM THE XINYANGTANG COLLECTION well have travelled along nomadic paths, originating in the
ancient Near East through Central Asia into China.
A CELADON-GLAZED DRAGON-HANDLED
MALLET VASE A mallet vase, of similar size and also decorated with dragon-
SONG DYNASTY fish handles, was excavated in 1983 from a Southern Song
tomb at Songyang county and illustrated in Zhu Boqian,
the tapering cylindrical body surmounted by a tall columnar ed., Celadons from Longquan Kilns, Taipei, 1998, p. 149, no.
neck, flanked by a pair of dragon-fish handles, covered overall 116. Closely related vases of this shape include one from the
in a sea-green glaze with faint crackles collection of Enid and Brodie Lodge, included in the Exhibition
19.8 cm, 7¾ in. of Chinese Art, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1954, cat. no. 422,
and sold in these rooms, 8th July 1975, lot 91; another in the
PROVENANCE Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya, was included in the exhibition
Collection of Dr Carl Kempe (1884-1967). Heavenly Blue. Southern Song Celadon, Nezu Art Museum,
Sotheby’s London, 5th November 2008, lot 537 (one of three). Tokyo, 2010, cat. no. 23; and another larger example sold in
our New York rooms, 18th March 2008, lot 79.
LITERATURE
Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe 宋 青釉龍耳盤口瓶
Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl 98.
來源：
HK$ 30,000-40,000 卡爾肯普博士（1884-1967年）收藏
US$ 3,850-5,200
倫敦蘇富比2008年11月5日，編號537（三件之一）
Celadon vases of this ‘mallet’ shape, which is generally known 出版：
under the Japanese term kinuta, are among the most sought- Bo Gyllensvard，《Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe
after Longquan vessels. Kinuta vases with dragon-fish, feiyu,
handles are rare, as they are more commonly known with Collection》，斯德哥爾摩，1964年，圖版98
phoenix handles. The mythological feiyu, considered a good
omen, was a popular motif during the Yuan dynasty and may
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