A RARE YAOZHOU CARVED CELADON 'DRAGON' VASE
A RARE YAOZHOU CARVED CELADON 'DRAGON' VASE
A RARE YAOZHOU CARVED CELADON 'DRAGON' VASE
A RARE YAOZHOU CARVED CELADON 'DRAGON' VASE
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A RARE CARVED YAOZHOU CELADON 'DRAGON' VASE

SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)

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A RARE CARVED YAOZHOU CELADON 'DRAGON' VASE
SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)
6 1⁄4 in. (16 cm.) high
Provenance
Sold at Christie's New York, 5 June 1986, lot 182
The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth

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Lot Essay

The slender oviform body carved with a wide band of flowers and leaves above overlapping petals, the shoulder with a remarkable openwork frieze of biscuit-molded dragons chasing flaming pearls pinched on to loop handles at the base of the short trumpet neck, the olive celadon glaze pooling attractively in the recesses of the crisp molding and carving. A similar example in the is illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 10, Kyoto, 1985, no. 38.

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