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PROPERTY FROM THE LINYUSHANREN COLLECTION
1716
A LONGQUAN CELADON CONICAL BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The bowl has deep sides faring widely from the small, delicate foot,
and is covered inside and out with an unctuous glaze of soft sea-green tone,
stopping on the foot ring.
5æ in. (14.3 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE
Sen Shu Tey, Tokyo.
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 of
the coast of Korea, was included in the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Found of 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 龍泉青釉斗笠盌

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