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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
     年ջ
 flared mouth rim. The vase is covered overall with a satiny greyish   紐約צ士得
     年 月  日
 拍品編號
 blue-green glaze suffused with golden crackle that falls short of the   藍理捷
 紐約
 編號
 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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