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AN EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF LONGQUAN TOBI SEIJI
GARLIC-MOUTH BOTTLE VASES

YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

Each vase is well potted with a compressed globular body rising from a splayed foot to a long slender
neck ending in a garlic-head mouth, covered overall with a fine lustrous glaze of sea-green tone. The
exterior is decorated with dark iron-brown splashes.

10 in. (25.3 cm.) high, boxes (2)

HK$15,000,000-25,000,000 US$2,000,000-3,200,000

PROVENANCE
Acquired in Taipei in the 1980s

EXHIBITED
Tokyo Takashimaya, Kyoto Takashimaya, Osaka Takashimaya, Yokohama Takashimaya, MOA
Museum of Art, Kure City Art Museum, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Two Thousand Years
of Chinese Ceramics, 9 April 1992 - 23 November 1992 (travelling exhibition), Catalogue, pl. 57

元 龍泉窯「飛青瓷」褐斑蒜頭瓶一對 (bases 底部)

來源
於1980年代購於台北

展覽
東京日本橋高島屋、京都四条高島屋、大阪難波高島屋、橫浜高島屋、MOA美術館、吳市立美術
館、山口縣立美術館，《中国陶磁2000年の精華》，1992年4月9日-1992年11月23日(巡迴展覽)，
圖錄圖版57號

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