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Lee and Wai-Kam Ho, Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty
(1279-1368), The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968, no. 63. Slightly smaller
examples include one (63.7 cm.) in The Art Institute of Chicago, illustrated
by Yutaka Mino and Katherine R. Tsiang, Ice and Green Clouds: Traditions
of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1987, p. 200, no. 81; and
the vase (63.2 cm.) from the Fujita Museum, sold at Christie’s New York, 15
March 2017, lot 501.
The decoration on the present vase was produced by scraping away the
ground surrounding the raised decoration which is subtly carved and
rounded, rather than carved directly into the body. Other vases carved
with decoration similar to that of the present vase include one (71.6 cm.)
illustrated in Celadons from Longquan Kilns, Taipei, 1998, p. 176, pl. 149;
and one illustrated by Regina Krahl in Chinese Ceramics in the Tokapi Saray
Museum Istanbul, vol. I, Yuan and Ming Dynasty Celadon Wares, London,
1986, p. 291, pl. 209. This vase is one of two similar vases in the collection,
both with a cut-down neck and now with reduced heights of 51 and 58 cm.

Fig. 1 Longquan vase, Yuan dynasty, PDF. 237.
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