A PAIR OF LONGQUAN CELADON VASES

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A PAIR OF LONGQUAN CELADON VASES
YUAN DYNASTY

Each with fixed ring handles at the waisted neck below the cupped mouth, carved on the body within a lotus panel to one side with a crouching mythical animal and the other with a deer below the 'fu' character, the spreading foot carved with a band of similarly-shaped panels above a saw-tooth border at the base, the neck with upright plantain leaves, covered overall in a pale green glaze (one foot with chip)
8 in. (20.4 cm.) high, box (2)

Lot Essay

Compare with an identical vase offered in our New York Rooms, 18 September 1997, lot 366.

This vase is related to two Longquan celadon vases of this form, each also with moulded decoration, although neither is raised on a similar pedestal foot. See Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, p. 285, no. 145 and Warren Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porelain, Vol. I, New York, 1944, p. 503, fig. 712 (left).

(US$6,000-8,000)

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