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A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON BOTTLE VASE
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY (1127-1365)
The vase is heavily potted with a compressed globular body below a tall, It is very rare to fnd a Longquan vase of this form and large size without
cylindrical neck that fares very slightly towards the lipped rim, and is covered handles. Longquan vases of this form typically feature tubular handles, such
with a crackled glaze of soft sea-green color that continues over the mouth rim as the slightly larger vase (31.1 cm.) illustrated in Celadons from Longquan
and stops on the foot. The base is also glazed. Kilns, Taipei, 1998, pp. 144-145, no. 111, and the two vases also of slightly
larger size (31 and 31.2 cm.) uncovered from an underground site in Jinyu
11Ω in. (29.2 cm.) high, Japanese lacquer box
Village in Sichuan, and now in the Sichuan Museum, illustrated in Ceramicas
Celadon de Longquan – Colleccao do Museu de Sichuan, Macao, 1998, pp.
$80,000-120,000
108-109, nos. 22 and 23. Another Longquan bottle vase of comparable
large size (32.5 cm. high), but with very unusual small dragon-form handles,
PROVENANCE formerly in the A.W. Bahr, Horace D. Chapin and Osgood Collections, was
Private collection, Japan. sold at Christie’s New York , 20-21 March 2014, lot 2103.
Zetterquist Galleries, New York.
南宋 龍泉青釉長頸瓶

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