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YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY
Details
A SUPERB LARGE CARVED AND MOLDED LONGQUAN CELADON 'PHOENIX TAIL' VASE
YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY
The heavily potted vase has a round body applied with a sprig-molded peony scroll above two bands of carved overlapping lotus petals. The trumpet-form neck is applied with further peony sprays beneath horizontal ribbed bands on the underside of the flaring mouth rim, and the whole is covered with a thick glaze of bluish sea-green tone with the exception of the unglazed foot.
24 5/8 in. (63.2 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY
The heavily potted vase has a round body applied with a sprig-molded peony scroll above two bands of carved overlapping lotus petals. The trumpet-form neck is applied with further peony sprays beneath horizontal ribbed bands on the underside of the flaring mouth rim, and the whole is covered with a thick glaze of bluish sea-green tone with the exception of the unglazed foot.
24 5/8 in. (63.2 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
Provenance
Fujita Museum, Osaka, acquired prior to 1940.
Literature
Masterpieces in The Fujita Museum of Art, vol. 2: Tea-ceremony Implements, Fujita Museum, Osaka, 1954, no. 45.
Masterpieces in The Fujita Museum of Art, Fujita Museum, Tokyo, 1972, no. 339.
Masterpieces in The Fujita Museum of Art, Fujita Museum, Tokyo, 1972, no. 339.