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A LONGQUAN CELADON CARVED
BOTTLE VASE, YUHUCHUNPING

YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY
The vase is carved with a band of leafy peony
scroll bearing two large blossoms above a band of
upright petals and below a band of inverted petals,
and is covered with an olive-green glaze that pools
in the carved recesses and continues into the
interior and covers the base. The foot ring is left
unglazed, revealing the grey body burnt orange in
the fring.
9æ in. (24.8 cm.) high
$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE

Private collection, South America, acquired prior
to 1930.
The shape and decoration of this vase are similar
to that of a vase in the collection of Mrs. Alfred
Clark illustrated by G. St. G. M. Gompertz,
Chinese Celadon Wares, London, 1981, pl. 81,
which has an additional band of cash motifs
between the main peony band on the body and
the inverted petals on the neck, and was later
sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong from the T. Y. Chao
Private and Family Trust, 18 November 1986, lot
28. Another similar vase, lacking the cash band
was sold at Sotheby’s London, 18 July 1961, lot 26.
元 龍泉青釉刻荷花紋玉壺春瓶

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