MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY

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A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON VASE, HU
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
Of pear shape, the vase is molded with a pair of lug handles that flank the neck and is raised on a tall splayed foot. It is covered overall with a crackled olive-green glaze that ends above the foot rim.
9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm.) high, Japanese lacquered wood box

Provenance

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4732.

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Lot Essay

The simple, elegant shape of this vase, with no carved decoration, is rare. A Longquan celadon pear-shaped bottle vase with similar hollow tubular handles and wide foot rim, incised with a Xuande (1426-1435) reign mark on the recessed base, in the Freer Gallery of Art, is illustrated in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, vol. 9, The Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Tokyo, 1981, pl. 81.

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