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113 For a comparable example in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco,
A fine Longquan celadon pear-shaped bottle vase, see He Li, Chinese Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey, 1996,
yuhuchunping pp.176-177, no.363.
Yuan Dynasty
Elegantly potted, the body raised on a gently splayed foot rising to a A larger (33.5cm high) similar Longquan vase dated Yuan Dynasty, in
slender neck below the wide everted mouth, covered overall with an the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Green- Longquan
olive-green glaze, the unglazed biscuit foot rim burnt orange in the Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2011, pp.104-105, no.50. Other
firing. larger examples have been sold at auction including: one 25cm high,
15cm high formerly in the collection of J.M.Hu, sold at Christie’s New York, 15
September 2009, lot 342; and another 31.8cm high, formerly in the
HK$600,000 - 1,000,000 collection of Mrs. Ross C. Armstrong, California, sold in our San
US$77,000 - 130,000 Francisco rooms, 24 June 2013, lot 1203.
元 龍泉釉玉壺春瓶 壺撇口，細長頸，梨形腹，圈足。器形比例恰當，優雅怡人。通體施
碧綠青釉，光素潤澤，圈足邊緣無釉，呈朱褐色。
玉壺春瓶自元代開始便是主要的酒器，例子可參考台北國立故宮博物
院藏龍泉釉玉壺春瓶，見蔡玫芬主編：《碧綠－明代龍泉窯青瓷》，
台北，2011年，頁 104-105，圖版50。該藏品與本拍品形式相近，據
書中所言，該器「頸較細，足較薄，或為元代燒造」。另見舊金山亞
洲藝術博物館藏一件類似的龍泉玉壺 春瓶，著錄於He Li，《Chinese
Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey》，1996年，頁176-177，
圖363。
其他拍賣例子，可參考胡惠春先生舊藏元龍泉釉玉壺春瓶，紐約佳士
得，2009年9月15日，拍賣編號342。另一件Ross C. Armstrong女士
舊藏龍泉釉玉壺春瓶，拍賣於舊金山邦瀚斯，2013年6月24 日，拍賣
編號1203。
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