A LONGQUAN CELADON VASE, YANYAN

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A LONGQUAN CELADON VASE, YANYAN
YUAN DYNASTY

The well-potted baluster-form body surmounted by a tall trumpet neck with nine evenly-spaced horizontal rib sections, the body with a single rib running below the shoulder, covered in a pale olive-green glaze, the foot rim left unglazed exposing the ware burnt orange in the firing
13 5/8 in. (34.7 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Previously sold in Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 111.

Cf. a smaller version but without the band around the body, included in the Special Exhibition of Sung Wares, National Palace Museum, Taibei, 1978, Catalogue, no. 65.

(US$20,000-25,000)

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