A LARGE CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON TRUMPET-NECKED BALUSTER VASE
A LARGE CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON TRUMPET-NECKED BALUSTER VASE

YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

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A LARGE CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON TRUMPET-NECKED BALUSTER VASE
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
The vase has a sturdily potted body and is crisply moulded around the sloping shoulder with a lotus scroll bearing two large blossoms and feathery leaves above a narrow incised foliate-scroll band and upright leaves around the base; the neck with further tall overlapping leaves with veining of the leaves incised for detail, and concentric ribs encircling the trumpet mouth. The whole raised on a foot carved in imitation of a stand, covered with a thick glaze of olive-green tone.
24 3/4 in. (63 cm.) high
Provenance
Eskenazi Ltd., London
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 613
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Lot Essay

Vases of this type are usually found in large sizes such as the present lot. Published examples include a pair from the Japanese Imperial Collection included in the Tokyo National Museum Exhibition of Treasures Originally from the Horyu-ji, 1959, Catalogue, no. 300; and another illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, no. 485.
A related example with peony and lotus scrolls incised and inscribed with the date equivalent to 1454 is illustrated in the Percival David Foundation, Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares, London, 1977, pl. X, no. 99, and again in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol. 14, Tokyo, 1976, p. 266, fig. 137. See another example from the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World's Greatest Collections, vol. 9, 1976,
no. 188.

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