A LONGQUAN CELADON CARVED JAR AND COVER

NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY

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A LONGQUAN CELADON CARVED JAR AND COVER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY
The jar with ovoid body carved with a band of overlapping upright petals below a double-grooved band, and the wide neck rising to a galleried mouth rim, the domed cover with everted rim and a flanged ring below a pierced bud-shaped finial, both covered with a crackled translucent glaze of slightly greyish-green color
10 5/8 in. (27 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Warren E. Cox, New York, June 1965.

Literature

W.E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. 1, New York, 1944, p. 149, pl. 40 (top right).

Exhibited

New Orleans Museum of Art, Heaven and Earth Seen Within, 2000, no. 50.

Lot Essay

A Longquan covered jar of similar shape, but carved with lotus scrolls around the shoulder and the cover carved with overlapping petals, from the Mrs. Alfred Clark Collection, was illustrated by G. Gompertz, Chinese Celadon Wares, London, 1958, no. 63, and later included in the O.C.S exhibition, The Art of the Sung Dynasty, London, 1960, pl. 65, no. 170. Another related example is in the Longquan Celadon Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo Longquan Qingci, Hangzhou, 1998, pl. 44.

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