A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON BOTTLE VASE

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A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON BOTTLE VASE
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY

Decorated with ribs encircling the compressed pear-shaped body, repeated at intervals with four, then two, with two more on the tapering, long neck, ending in a curled, galleried mouth, and supported on a tall foot, all under a thick, semi-matt sea-green glaze thinning slightly at the ribs (shallow chips to footrim)
6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Two larger Longquan vases of the same profile and decoration are in the Nezu Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in G. St. G. M. Gompertz, Chinese Celadon Wares, pl. 75a; and in the Hakone Art Museum, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, p. 164, fig. 476.

(US$13,000-20,000)

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