A LONGQUAN CELADON PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING

YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

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A LONGQUAN CELADON PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
The body is carved with two lotus sprays above the bow-string band and a band of upright petals rising from the slightly spreading foot. The waisted neck is encircled by a double bow-string band below a band of upright leaves interrupted by a pair of dragon-fish handles suspending large stationary rings from their tails. The vase is covered in a glaze of olive-green color.
8 ½ in. (20.6 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Private collection, Japan, since the late 19th-early 20th century.

Lot Essay

Compare the vase illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, Tokyo, 1981, vol. 13, p. 186, no. 169, which has a band of petals below foliate decoration on a pear-shaped body and stationary rings pendent from mask handles, but the neck is far taller, with a trumpet mouth, and the foliate scroll is in slip under the glaze and not carved.

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