A LONGQUAN CELADON GUAN-TYPE VASE
A LONGQUAN CELADON GUAN-TYPE VASE
A LONGQUAN CELADON GUAN-TYPE VASE
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A LONGQUAN CELADON GUAN-TYPE VASE

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

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A LONGQUAN CELADON GUAN-TYPE VASE
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The compressed pear-shaped body is raised on a wide ring foot and has a tall cylindrical neck that rises to a lipped rim. The vase is covered overall with a greenish-blue glaze suffused with a golden-brown crackle.
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high, cloth box
Provenance
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4541.

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Lot Essay

A Longquan celadon vase of very similar form in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Dynastic Renaissance: Art and Culture of the Southern Song – Antiquities, Taipei, 2010, p. 92, no. II-8. See, also, another similar example discovered in a Southern Song cache at Jinyucun, Suining, Sichuan province illustrated in Fūlin sareta Nansō toji ten (Newly Discovered Southern Song Ceramics: A Thirteenth-Century “Time Capsule”), Tokyo, 1998, p. 24, no. 14.

A larger Longquan celadon vase of very similar form with a crackled glaze in the British Museum is illustrated by S. Vainker in Chinese Pottery and Porcelain from Prehistory to the Present, New York, 1991, p. 107, no. 78 and another comparable Longquan celadon example of this form in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated by H. Tseng and R. Dart in The Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Vol. II, Boston, 1972, no. 43.

The dating of the vase is consistent with the results of C-Link Research & Development Ltd thermoluminescence test no. 9548XE12.

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