A VERY RARE YAOZHOU CELADON CARVED BOTTLE VASE, YUHUCHUNPING

YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY

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A VERY RARE YAOZHOU CELADON CARVED BOTTLE VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY
The elegant pear-shaped body tapering to a slender neck rising to a flared mouth, fluidly carved with a broad band of loose, arabesque scroll below a narrow band of pendent overlapping leaves encircling the shoulder, both bands set within double-line borders, covered overall with a transparent glaze of greyish-olive tone falling in an irregular line above the knife-cut foot ring to expose the fine pale grey ware
10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Japanese private collection, acquired in the 1970s.

Lot Essay

Compare the vase of the same form, dated Yuan dynasty, 13th century, with very similar freely carved decoration arranged in bands on the body, illustrated in The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Tokyo, 1997, p. 88, no. 113.

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