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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 501

A RARE 'LONGQUAN' CELADON- GLAZED KUN DIKA , YUAN DYNASTY
Estimate: 6,000 - 8,000 USD

A RARE 'LONGQUAN' CELADON-GLAZED KUNDIKA
YUAN DYNASTY
元 龍泉窰青釉淨瓶

the baluster body atop a short tapering foot, the long cylindrical neck rising out of a pronounced flange above the shoulder,
covered overall with an unctuous sea-green glaze, stopping unevenly to reveal the burnt orange foot, Japanese wood box (3)

Height 6¾ in., 17.3 cm

Provenance
Mayuyama & Co., Tokyo, prior to 17th December 1950.
Collection of Victor (1919-2013) and Takako (1923-2015) Hauge, and thence by descent.

來源
繭山龍泉堂，東京，1950年12月17日之前
Victor (1919-2013) 及 Takako (1923-2015) Hauge 伉儷收藏，此後家族傳承

Catalogue Note
Known as a jizi ping (bottle in the shape of the character ji), the present lot closely resembles a kundika, a Buddhist holy water
vessel. Only a small number of Longquan vessels of this form are known. A much larger example (48.2 cm high) in the Palace

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