A SMALL LONGQUAN CELADON BALUSTER JAR AND COVER

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A SMALL LONGQUAN CELADON BALUSTER JAR AND COVER
SOUTHERN SONG/YUAN DYNASTY

The jar carved in high relief around the sides with slender rib-like petals repeated on the domed section of the leaf-form cover with scalloped rim and stem finial, covered inside and out with a glaze of sea-green hue thinning on the raised areas and falling in an irregular line on the foot to expose the ware burnt orange in the firing as is the underside of the rim of the cover, rim chips--5 3/8in. (13.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

Examples of these jars, varying in size, were included in the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Found off the Sinan Coast, National Museum of Korea, 1977, Catalogue no. 315. Examples larger than the present lot, but with the same high quality glaze and potting, are in the Chang Foundation, illustrated by James Spencer, Selected Chinese Ceramics from the Han to Qing Dynasties, 1990, p. 164, no. 63, and in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, illustrated by Regina Krahl in the Catalogue, vol. I, p. 215, no. 213

Compare, also, the jar and cover sold Christie's, London, December 12, 1988, lot 145