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A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON LONG-NECKED VASE
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The vase has a compressed globular body raised on a wide ring foot, and a tall neck that rises to a lipped
rim, and is covered overall with an even glaze of sea-green tone.
6√ in. (17.5 cm.) high
$40,000-60,000

A similar Longquan vase of lipped rim but with a more compressed body, included in the exhibition
catalogue, Heavenly Blue: Southern Song Celadons, Tokyo, 2010, p. 43, fg. 13, measuring 21.7 cm. high.
An example also of lipped rim but with a more curved silhouette is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: the World’s Great Collections, vol. 12: Metropolitan Museum of
Art, Tokyo, 1982, monochrome plates, measuring 21.3 cm. high, no. 52, . A pair of Longquan long-necked
vases of similar form and proportion but with straight neck were excavated from a Southern Song hoard
in Jinyucun, Suining city, Sichuan province, illustrated in Heavenly Blue: Southern Song Celadons, op.
cit., p. 140, fg. 15-19. Two more examples with straight mouth are in the Tokugawa Art Museum and
Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, illustrated in Heavenly Blue: Southern Song Celadons, op. cit., p.
42, fgs. 11-12. Compare also three long-necked vases with lipped rims, possibly made at the Guan kilns
in Hangzhou: one covered with crackled celadon glaze in the British Museum, London, illustrated in
Asahi Shimbun, Song Ceramics, Tokyo, 1999, p. 100, no. 63; two covered with crackled yellowish glaze,
known as beishoku celadon, illustrated in Heavenly Blue: Southern Song Celadons, op. cit., p. 82-83,
igs. 58-59.
Compare, also, two similar vases with lipped rims from the Linyushanren Collection: one sold
at Christie’s Hong Kong, 2 December 2015, lot 2807, and another sold at Christie’s New York,
15 September 2016, lot 716.
南宋 龍泉青釉長頸瓶

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