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A RARE 'YAOZHOU' BOTTLE VASE
NORTHERN SONG / JIN DYNASTY
of elegant pear shape, the rounded body tapering into
a waisted neck and sweeping out to a trumpet mouth,
supported on a low, neatly cut foot, all covered in a
translucent olive glaze permeated with a network of fine
crackle, the glaze stopping neatly above the foot revealing
the buff gray body, the recessed base partially glazed
Height 6½ in., 16.5 cm
PROVENANCE
Mathias Komor, New York, January 1951.
Collection of Myron S. (1907-1992) and Pauline B. (1910-
2000) Falk, coll. no. 182.
Christie’s New York, 16th October 2001, lot 39.
EXHIBITED
Chinese Ceramic Masterpieces, Detroit Institute of Arts,
Detroit, 1947.
LITERATURE
Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg
Collection, Montreal, 2015, pl. 142.
With the establishment of the Northern Song dynasty, the
Yaozhou, Baofeng, and Linru kilns superseded those of the
Yue in producing celadon wares. The present vase is notable
for its elegant profile, a feature heightened by its unadorned
surface and lustrous grayish-green glaze.
Larger examples with more opaque glazes were exhibited in
Song Ceramics, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1999,
cat. no. 17., and in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection,
1994, Hong Kong Museum of Art, cat. no. 92. See also one
with a slightly less waisted neck and similar glaze to the
present piece, illustrated in The Masterpieces of Yaozhou
Ware, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1997, pl. 110.

$ 30,000-50,000

北宋 / 金 耀州窰青釉瓶
來源
Mathias Komor，紐約，1951年1月
Myron S. (1907-1992) 及 Pauline B. (1910-2000) Falk
伉儷收藏，收藏編號182
紐約佳士得2001年10月16日，編號39
展覽
《Chinese Ceramic Masterpieces》，底特律美術館，
底特律，1947年
出版
Karen Thomson 編，《The Blema and H. Arnold
Steinberg Collection》，蒙特利爾，2015年，圖版142

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