A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON 'PHOENIX-TAIL' VASE
A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON 'PHOENIX-TAIL' VASE

LATE YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY

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A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON 'PHOENIX-TAIL' VASE
LATE YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY
The body is carved with a band of leafy peonies above a lower band of upright petals, and the flaring neck is carved with concentric ribs beneath the everted rim. The vase is covered inside and out with a glaze of sea-green color, and the inside of the foot and deeply recessed base are similarly glazed.
17 7/8 in. (45.4 cm.) high
來源
Private collection, Japan.
Private collection, Europe.
出版
S. Marchant & Son, Recent Acquisitions, 2006, no. 2, pp. 8-9.

拍品專文

This vase is a particularly well-executed example of its type, with an elegant form and even, attractively-colored sea-green glaze. The three decorative registers are contrasting yet complementary: the finely carved horizontal ribs of the neck and the vertical lappets frame the freely-scrolling lotus of the central section.

A Longquan 'phoenix-tail' vase of similar size is illustrated by R. Krahl and J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, Vol. 1, Yuan and Ming Dynasty Celadon Wares, London, 1986, no. 206, where the authors note that similar vases were among the cargo of a ship which sank off Sinan, Korea, in about the third decade of the 14th century. Other examples include one illustrated by J. A. Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956, pl. 129, no. 29.648 and another of similar height and decoration in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, and illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 576.

Compare, also, the Longquan celadon 'phoenix-tail' vase with similar ribbing on the upper neck, from the Percival David Foundation and currently on loan to the British Museum, museum no. PDF.237, which is inscribed with a date corresponding to 1327.

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