YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY

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A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON PEAR-SHAPED VASE
YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY
The pear-shaped body supported on a sturdy footring and surmounted by a trumpet neck flanked by a pair of mythical beast head handles suspending large fixed rings, the neck, shoulder and mid-section encircled by raised bands, covered overall with an even rich olive green glaze
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high, Japanese double wood box

Provenance

Acquired in Kyoto in the 1920s and thence by direct descent to the present owner

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Lot Essay

Vases of this form without added decorative features are quite rare. Two undecorated vases with very similar flattened ribbed handles dated to the 13th/14th century are in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, London, 1986, pp. 220-221, nos. 200 and 201. Another similarly shaped undecorated Yuan Longquan vase was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3821.

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