A Rare Small Celadon Jarlet

SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)

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A Rare Small Celadon Jarlet
Song dynasty (960-1279)
Of Longquan type, unusally potted as a long-legged hare standing beside a globular jarlet with sharp-edged high shoulder and a short neck grasped between the outstretched front legs of the hare, while its back feet are supported by the spreading foot of the jar, covered overall with a crackled, translucent glaze of soft sea-green tone
3 1/8in. (7.9cm.) high, wood stand

Provenance

Mathias Komor, New York, January 1952.

Exhibited

Highlights of Asian Art, Morristown, New Jersey, Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1972.

Lot Essay

This charming jarlet represents the hare stirring the 'elixir of life'. Folklore associates the hare with the Moon Goddess, thus it also represents femininty and fertility. For a similar celadon example and a discussion see Fang Jing Pei, Treasures of the Chinese Scholar, New York, 1997, p. 77.

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