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A LONGQUAN CELADON 'ARROW' VASE
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The pear-shaped body rises to a tall, slender neck flanked by a
pair of tubular handles, and is incised with a series of bands. The
vase is covered overall with an even glaze of soft sea-green color.
6p in. (16 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

$12,000-18,000
The form of this vase is based on ‘arrow vases’, or touhu, the
primary accessory of a drinking game which involved throwing
all of one's arrows into the mouth of the vessel. The loser was
assessed a penalty drink for every errant throw.
Too small to actually be used in the drinking game, the present
vase was probably intended to hold flowers. A pair of Longquan
arrow vases of the same height but with wider necks, was
recovered from the tomb of the Yuan calligrapher Xian Yushu
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(1251-1302). See Zhang Yulan, "Hangzhoushi faxian Yuandai
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ⱷ1080 Xian Yushu mu," Wenwu, 1990:9, p. 24, figs. 11-12. Another
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similar vase was included in the exhibition, The Scholar as
A LONGQUAN CELADON CONICAL BOWL Collector: Chinese Art at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery and
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
China Institute in America, New York, 2004, p. 18, fig. 8.
The bowl has conical sides flaring widely from the small, delicate
foot, and is covered inside and out with an unctuous glaze of soft
sea-green tone, stopping at the foot ring. 南宋ǎ龍泉青釉投ૐ
5º in. (13.2 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE:
Tea ceremony practitioner, Kansai, active in the 1970s, by repute.
The rather delicate conical form of this bowl, standing on a
small foot, is shown to good advantage by the even, blue-green
glaze. Conical bowls were used for the drinking of tea, and the
Longquan kilns produced such bowls for both the domestic
and export market. Three similar Longquan conical bowls were
discovered in 1991 in Suining, Sichuan province, amongst a cache
of ceramics dating from the late Southern Song period. See
Newly Discovered Southern Song Ceramics, A Thirteenth-Century
"Time Capsule", Tokyo, 1998, pp. 40-1, nos. 36-8. A very similar
bowl, recovered from the Sinan wreck off the coast of Korea, was
included in the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Found off the
Sinan Coast, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 1977, pl. 19. A
crackle-glazed example was excavated from the Song dynasty
kiln at Shifangxian, and is illustrated in Celadons from Longquan
Kilns, Taipei, 1998, p. 166, nos. 137-1 and 137-2. Another example
in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is included in Illustrated
Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace
Museum, Lung-ch'üan Ware, Ko Ware and Other Wares, Taipei,
1974, pls. 17 and 18.

南宋 龍泉青釉笠式盌
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(another view with box) (another view with box)
日本關西茶道大師, 活躍於1970年代(傳)
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