AN UNUSUAL GUAN-TYPE LONGQUAN CELADON MALLET VASE

SOUTHERN SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL GUAN-TYPE LONGQUAN CELADON MALLET VASE
SOUTHERN SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The rounded cylindrical body tapering very slightly towards the foot and with high canted shoulder, with cylindrical neck flaring slightly towards the mouth rim, covered all over with a satiny greyish blue-green glaze suffused with golden crackle ending at the edge of the foot rim to expose the fine dark grey ware, the base similarly glazed
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Acquired by the late Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Cohen in the 1970s.

Lot Essay

The shape of this vase is quite unusual. It is related to a heavier, less well-proportioned example of Yuan date illustrated by Zhu Boqian, (ed.), in Celadons from Longquan Kilns, Taipei, 1998, p. 179, no. 152. The shape is a more squat version of the shape of a Ding bottle vase, Northern Song dynasty, 12th century, in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated by S. Pierson, Song Ceramics - Objects of Admiration, London, 2003, pp. 20-1, no. 1.

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