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A LONGQUAN CELADON RIBBED MEIPING AND COVER
12th/13th century
The elongated ovoid body with fine concentric ribs on the exterior beneath the neck tapering
inwards, the interior and exterior all covered with a rich bluish-green glaze covering the foot
around the slightly recessed unglazed base, the cover similarly ribbed and glazed.
8 1/4in (21cm) high
$20,000 - 30,000
十二或十三世紀 龍泉窯青釉竹節紋帶蓋梅瓶
Provenance
Sotheby’s New York, 21/22 September 2005, lot 312
The fine concentric horizontal ribs of the present lot are perfectly designed to exhibit the
attractive pooling effect and deepening color of the distinctive bluish-green Longquan glaze:
this can be contrasted with ribbed Cizhou meiping, whose vertical ribs highlight the pleasing
properties of the cream and dark slip decoration.
It is rare for a cover to survive with the vase, but another meiping and cover was
excavated in 1979 from a tomb in Songyangxian dated to AD 1195: see Zhu Boqian,
Longquan yao qingci, Taipei, 1998, p. 123, no. 88. Compare also two ribbed meiping
with covers in the collection of the Longquan Celadon Museum, Zhejiang, and illustrated
Longquan Celadon of China, 1998, nos. 90 and 91.

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