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887 A VERY RARE LONGQUAN CELADON 南宋 元ǭ十Հ 十Ӳ世紀ǭ
GUAN-TYPE MALLET VASE 龍泉窯仿官釉紙槌≡
SOUTHERN SONG–YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The rounded body with high canted shoulder tapers very slightly Ϝ源
towards the foot and has a cylindrical neck that rises slightly to a "MQIPOTF $PIFO֖儷Ⅷ藏
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flared mouth rim. The vase is covered overall with a satiny greyish 紐約צ士得
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blue-green glaze suffused with golden crackle that falls short of the 藍理捷
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unglazed foot rim.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, brocade box
$70,000-90,000
PROVENANCE:
The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Cohen, 1970s.
Christie’s New York, 19 September 2007, lot 259.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4385.

A Guan mallet vase of larger size in the Freer Gallery of Art is
illustrated in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 9,
The Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Tokyo, 1981, col. pl.
no. 1, with description on p. 163. See, also, an example of larger
size in the Umezawa Kinenkan Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in
Nansį no seiji: sora o utsusu utsuwa (Heavenly Blue: Southern Song
Ceramics), Tokyo, 2010, p. 34, no. 2.

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