SOUTHERN SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY

Compare the very similar Longquan celadon yuhuchunping dated to the Yuan dynasty excavated in 1983 in Taishun County, Zhejiang province, illustrated in Celadons from Longquan Kilns, Taipei, 1998, p. 187, no. 160. Other similar Longquan celadon vases have been sold in these rooms: one formerly in the J.M. Hu Collection, sold 15 September 2009, lot 342; and another sold 19 March 2008, lot 562. See, also, the Longquan celadon vase of similar proportions, but with tobi-seiji glaze, from the Ataka Collection, now in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, illustrated in the catalogue, Exhibition of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1982, no. 23.