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A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON TWO-HANDLED SLENDER A LONGQUAN CELADON ‘LOTUS’ BOWL
PEAR-SHAPED VASE,YUHUCHUNPING Southern Song Dynasty
Song/Yuan Dynasty The rounded exterior molded and incised with overlapping lotus petals
The pear-shaped body plain save for two incised horizontal lines at the under a sea-green ‘Kinuta’-like glaze which stops at the base of the
mid neck between the vertical ‘bat’, fu, or ‘water caltrop’-form, lingjiao, slightly tapering foot, revealing the burnt-orange body beneath, the
handles, all below the everted rim, the even celadon-green glaze interior plain.
stopping neatly above the orange-fired grey stoneware foot ring, the 6 1/2in (16.5cm) diameter
base interior glazed.
9in (22.8cm) high $2,500 - 4,500

$2,500 - 4,000 南宋 龍泉窰青釉蓮瓣盌

宋/元 龍泉青釉雙耳瓶 For another example, see Priestly & Ferraro, Chinese Art, Longquan
Celadon, Southern Song to Early Ming, London, 2006, no. 6.
The potters at the Longquan kilns in the Southern Song dynasty began
to embellish vases by adding decorative handles on either side of the For a Southern Song dynasty Longquan bowl of the same type
columnar neck. Most commonly seen are the phoenix handles on in the Gemeentemuseum, The Haque, see Mary Tregear, Song
mallet-shaped vases. Much rarer, it seems are Longquan pear-shaped Ceramics, Friborg, 1982, p. 167, no. 228. See also another
vases, yuhuchunping, with the type of ‘water caltrop’ handles seen on illustrated by T. Misugi, Chinese Porcelain Collections in the Near
the current vessel. This example may be unique. Others with the more East, Topkapi and Ardebil, Volume Three, (The Topkapi Palace
common dragon-head handles or even upright cylinders (arrow vases) Museum), Hong Kong University Press, 1981, p. 237, no. T.137.
prevailed. For a Southern Song dynasty arrow vase of pear shape, see
Bonhams, New York, 21 July 2020, lot 145; an example with dragon-
mask handles sold at Sotheby’s, London, 7 November 2018, lot 60;
and a bottle vase with dragon-fish handles sold at Christie’s New York,
20-21 March 2014 lot 2103.

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