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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTION
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A MAGNIFICIENT AND VERY RARE LARGE LONGQUAN
CELADON ‘PHOENIX TAIL’ VASE
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
The heavily potted vase has a rounded upper body well carved in relief
with leafy peony scroll bearing four large fowers above a band of slender
overlapping petals. The trumpet-shaped neck is carved with two peony sprays
below horizontal ribbed bands on the underside of the faring mouth rim. The
vase is covered overall and inside the high foot with a glaze of rich sea-green
color that thins on the raised areas and falls to the unglazed bottom of the foot
that has burnt orange-brown in the fring.
28Ω in. (72 cm.) high, Japanese double wood box
$200,000-300,000

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Japan, acquired prior to 1966.
EXHIBITED
On loan: Osaka Municipal Museum, 1966-2018.
Osaka, Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Chugoku Bijutsu ten series IV So Gen
no Bijutsu, 15 October - 12 November, 1978.
Izumi, Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art, Sensei, Bansei and Celadon of
Longquan Yao, 5 October - 24 November, 1996.
Osaka, Osaka Municipal Museum, Chugoku Kogei 5000 nen, 7 January - 5
February, 2012.

LITERATURE
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Chugoku Bijutsu ten series IV So Gen no
Bijutsu, Osaka, 1978, p. 15, no. 1-30.
Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art, Sensei, Bansei and Celadon of Longquan
Yao, Izumi, 1996, p. 59, no. 76.
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