A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON BOTTLE VASE

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A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON BOTTLE VASE
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY

Decorated with ribs encircling the compressed pear-shaped body, repeated at intervals with four, then two, with two more on the tapering, long neck, ending in a curled, galleried mouth, and supported on a tall foot, all under a thick, semi-matt sea-green glaze thinning slightly at the ribs (shallow chips to footrim)
6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) high

拍品專文

Two larger Longquan vases of the same profile and decoration are in the Nezu Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in G. St. G. M. Gompertz, Chinese Celadon Wares, pl. 75a; and in the Hakone Art Museum, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, p. 164, fig. 476.

(US$13,000-20,000)