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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN COLLECTION
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A LONGQUAN CELADON-GLAZED ‘BAMBOO-NECK’ VASE,
XIANWENPING
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY (1127-1368)
The compressed pear-shaped body is subtly decorated with a series of low
horizontal bands, and the tall tapering neck is encircled by two bow-string
bands in imitation of bamboo, all below a wide slightly inverted galleried rim.
The vase is covered overall with an unctuous crackled pale green glaze.
10¡ in. (26.5 cm.) high
£20,000-30,000 $27,000-39,000
€23,000-33,000
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Kanazawa, Japan, acquired in the early 20th century.
Christie’s New York, 15-16 March 2015, lot 3250.
Vases of this form, called xianwenping (‘string pattern vase’), are potted
with two diferent types of mouth rim, either a wide dish-shaped mouth
or a slighted inverted galleried rim. The present vase falls into the latter
category. Compare with a vase in the Nezu Museum in Tokyo illustrated
in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, no. 81, and another in the Percival
David Foundation of Chinese Art in London published in Margaret Medley’s
Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares, London, 1977, pl. V, no. 50.
These two types of mouth rims were contemporaneous, as evidenced by
the fnds from a Southern Song hoard excavated at Jinyucun, Suining City,
Sichuan province in 1991, and from Longquan kilns sites. Vases from the
former site are published in Newly Discovered Southern Song Ceramics - A
Thirteenth-Century “Time Capsule”, Japan, 1998, pp. 14-16, nos. 2-4, and from
the latter in Longquan Qingci Yanjiu, Beijing, 1989, pl. 41, fg. 1.

These vases were also among the cargo of a wreck dating to 1323 which
sunk of the Sinan coast of Korea on its way to Japan. See National Museum
of Korea, Sinan Wreck Exhibition, Seoul, 1977, no. 15.
南宋/元 龍泉青釉洗口弦紋瓶

來源:
日本金澤市私人珍藏，於二十世紀早期入藏
紐約佳士得2015年3月15-16日拍賣，拍品3250號
重要亞洲私人珍藏

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