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PROPERTY FROM THE JUNKUNC COLLECTION Starting around 1200, the Longquan kilns Guanyao hu-form vase of similar proportions,
A CELADON-GLAZED ‘LONGQUAN’ began to imitate the Guan wares produced at though slightly taller and without the facets,
GUAN-TYPE FACETED HU VASE Jiaotanxia. The imitations were produced in two published in ibid., pl. 3.
SONG - MING DYNASTY types. For the first type, the Longquan potters Other small, faceted Longquan vases attributed
mixed zijintu (purple-gold clay) into the body
and induced a widely-spaced craquelure, so to the Song and Yuan dynasties include a
the slightly compressed pear-shaped body square-section pear-shaped vase formerly in
formed with eight facets all supported on a that both the glaze and the dark body would the collections of K.M. Semon and Frederick M.
slightly splayed foot, set with two lug handles at conform to the aesthetic qualities of the Guan Mayer, illustrated in Warren E. Cox, The Book of
the neck, covered overall in an even sage-green original. For the second type, to which the Pottery and Porcelain, vol. I, New York, 1944, p.
glaze suffused with a fine craquelure present example belongs, the usual pale gray 148, and also in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics
Height 5⅛ in., 13 cm Longquan clay was employed and the focus from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London,
was on imitating the thick body, glaze color 1994, vol. I, no. 553. For a related Song dynasty
PROVENANCE and craquelure of Guan wares. Imitation-Guan Longquan pear-shaped vase, but without
wares of this second category have the burnt-
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). facets, see an example from the Laiyantang
orange coloration at the unglazed foot that is Collection and published in Mason M. Wang,
$ 80,000-120,000 characteristic of Longquan wares in general. Song Ceramics from the Laiyantang Collection,
The present vase is closely related to a Song self-published, 2010, pl. 44.
dynasty faceted Longquan vase from the Qing
Court Collection, now in the Palace Museum,
Beijing, and published in The Complete 宋至明 龍泉窰仿官窰式八方
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum:
Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (II), Hong Kong, 貫耳壺
pl. 101. Both vases share the same form, size,
and proportions. The collection of the Palace 來源
Museum, Beijing, also includes a Song dynasty 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

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