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

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A VERY RARE LONGQUAN CELADON GUAN-TYPE MALLET VASE
SOUTHERN SONG–YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The rounded body with high canted shoulder tapers very slightly towards the foot and has a cylindrical neck that rises slightly to a flared mouth rim. The vase is covered overall with a satiny greyish blue-green glaze suffused with golden crackle that falls short of the unglazed foot rim.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, brocade box

Provenance

The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Cohen, 1970s.
Christie's New York, 19 September 2007, lot 259.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4385.

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Lot Essay

A Guan mallet vase of larger size in the Freer Gallery of Art is illustrated in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 9, The Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Tokyo, 1981, col. pl. no. 1, with description on p. 163. See, also, an example of larger size in the Umezawa Kinenkan Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in Nansō no seiji: sora o utsusu utsuwa (Heavenly Blue: Southern Song Ceramics), Tokyo, 2010, p. 34, no. 2.

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