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fig. 1 The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka fig. 2 Yangdetang Collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,
எӬ © ഌ㩌Ⴊ⛁ែᰑ㪃┵⧻ワ㱦 30 November 2016, lot 3133
எՀ 㱐ᇪలⅧ⻦卿㲞ᳰצᇑ卿 ჺ ᝲ ᚚ卿ᐽ ⽚
PROPERTY FROM THE YANGDETANG COLLECTION
2953
A VERY RARE LONGQUAN CELADON RUSSET- ԭ 㹪ᦿ⒌㤎⁆⽥ᐾ㷡ྑἕᒰ⁅
SPLASHED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
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YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
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The vase is elegantly potted with a wide flaring mouth and covered
in a thick greyish-celadon glaze decorated with scattered oxidised ᫉㯸ݰㆁᙚ㿽ᆭ⎏䂆ᯛ⚨㬪≢ஙᚚទㄴ♑הǸ㰮㬪≢ǹ卿ℱ೭
iron-brown splashes stopping above the unglazed foot. ᛌ≡㙁⎏㯸ַ։ᗌ⒖ݬᝳ୨։卿ࡺᑐӬ։ჺ݉ջ卿Ԇ⻦ᙻ
9 in. (25 cm.) high, box ᚚទഌ㩌Ⴊ⛁ែᰑ㪃≢⧻ワ㱦⎏ℱ೭ᛌ≡卿᫉≡ᝤㄴ⎈㉃ἃஇ
HK$2,000,000-3,000,000 US$260,000-380,000 ༾卻ॲː卼厎औᝳӬ։⻦ᙻᚚទ☆՞ᘘ⻦卿ஙᚚទߺㄴἃ㞒
㇝ᙔࢇ㏏ǯ᫉ݦ։䂆ᯛ⚨ㆁᙚ㿽ᆭ㬪≢ℱ೭ᛌ≡ߎߣߒᙻǶӽ
There are four comparable vases of similar shape and ⊤㪃┵ݥ㫀厍㚅❩Ƿ卿✄ ݺ卿ែ卿 ჺ卿எ‸ ࣿ
decoration: the first, measuring 27.4 cm. high, is registered in
Japan as National Treasure and now belongs to the Oriental ⽚厎⩧ங⇧ᚚݤ≖⎏㷿‰ᘘ⻦ԋ卿ՔᝳӬ։㵶 ݩߎ⎏㯸ַ
Ceramics Museum, Osaka; (fig. 1) the second, in a Japanese ։卿Ԇߒᙻ+PIO "ZFSTⶬ⎏Ƕ$IJOFTF $FSBNJDTǷ卿✄ ݺ卿"
private collection and registered as Important Cultural ⽚厎ᝬᇌӬ։⏟ַߺᛓⲖஇ⣠അߧՌকⰻ֬⁞ࢷ⁒㱦⎏㱦
Property, is illustrated in Koyama Fujio, ed., Sekai toji zenshu: ⻦卿ݯ㖊ᙻǶ5IF $FSBNJD "SU PG $IJOB BOE 0UIFS $PVOUSJFT PG
China Sung and Liao Dynasties, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1956, pls. 17 and UIF 'BS &BTUǷ卿ٳᘹ卿 ჺ卿எ‸ ⽚ǯऔം㚍जࣻ⩠㲞ᳰצ
49; the third is in the Baur Collection, Geneva, measuring 28
cm. high, and illustrated by John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, vol. ᇑ ჺ ᝲ ᚚᐽ ⽚⎏Ӭཌ㱐ᇪలⅧ⻦⎏݉ջ䂆ᯛ
1, no. A104; and another in the Victoria and Albert Museum, ⚨㰮㬪≢ㆁᙚⷤ㯔≡卻ॲ̤卼ǯ
London, illustrated by William Bowyer Honey, The Ceramic Art
of China and Other Countries of the Far East, London, 1945, pl.
36. Compare also a pair of similar garlic-mouth bottle vases
also from the Yangdetang Collection, sold at Christie’s Hong
Kong, 30 November 2016, lot 3133. (fig. 2)
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