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PROPERTY OF VARIOUS OWNERS A similar Southern Song dynasty mallet vase with dragon fish handles
in the Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya, is illustrated in Heavenly Blue:
144 Southern Song Celadon, Nezu Museum, 2010, no. 23; and another
A LONGQUAN CELADON MALLET VASE Southern Song dynasty example is illustrated by Bo Gyllensvärd,
Southern Song/Yuan dynasty Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl.
The cylindrical body gently flaring towards a cantered shoulder rising 99. A smaller (19.8cm) Song dynasty example is illustrated ibid., pl. 98,
to the tall columnar neck, surmounted by a wide everted dished rim and sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29-30 November 2018, lot 604; a
with slightly upturned lip, above a pair of applied S-shaped dragon Southern Song dynasty example was sold at Christie’s New York, 19
fish handles, each with molded details, all surfaces covered with March 2008, lot 561; and a similar Yuan dynasty example was sold at
an unctuous pale sea-green glaze, stopping short of the unglazed, Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2 April 2019, lot 3028.
orange-burnt footrim.
10 1/8in (25.6cm) high 145
A LONGQUAN CELADON VASE
US$6,000 - 8,000 Yuan/Ming dynasty
Potted with a pear-shaped body rising to a wide columnar neck with a
gently-flared rolled rim, flanked by a pair of opposing tubular handles
南宋/元 龍泉窰青釉龍魚耳盤口瓶 set between pairs of bowstring bands, supported on a flared foot
ring with neatly trimmed edge, applied overall with an unctuous green
Provenance glaze, the edges of the foot ring unglazed revealing the burnt-orange
Collection of Eugene Lee, a U.S. Diplomat who served in the Far East, body.
acquired circa 1920, and thence by descent (by repute) 11 1/2in (29.2cm) high

來源
據藏家，美國外交官Eugene Lee珍藏，約1920年得於遠東, 後由家族 US$4,000 - 6,000
成員繼承
元/明 龍泉窰青釉貫耳弦纹壺
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