A Longquan celadon cong vase, Southern Song dynasty | 南宋 龍泉窰青釉琮式瓶

An old Japanese private collection, Tokyo, circa 2000s.

Celadon vases of this form imitate archaic ritual jade objects in shape and colour and represent one of the most characteristic types of Song ceramics. They derive from jade cong, which are not shaped as containers but as open tubes, and are known particularly from the Neolithic Liangzhu culture in southeastern China. A fine jade example from the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, was included in the exhibition Gems of Liangzhi Culture, Hong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong, 1992, cat. no. 57.

Several Longquan cong vases can be seen in famous collections throughout the world; one in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Longquan qingci [Celadon of Longquan], Beijing, 1966, pl. 15; another is published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum. Lung-ch'uan Ware, Ko Ware and Other Wares, Kyoto, 1974, pls 8 and 9; another from the Eumorfopoulos collection and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is included in John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, pl. 124; and a fourth example from the Oppenheim collection and now in the British Museum, London, is published in Jessica Rawson (ed.), The British Museum Book of Chinese Art, London, 1992, pl. 8 (left). Compare also a vase of this type, from the Toguri collection, sold in our London rooms, 9th June 2004, lot 53; and another from the Baron Hatvany collection, included in the exhibition Song Ceramics, Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Singapore, 1983, cat. no. 36, and sold in our London rooms, 5th November 1996, lot 605. See also one sold in these rooms, 4th April 2012, lot 3122, and one sold in our London rooms, 5th November 2014, lot 23.

來源

日本私人舊藏，東京，約2000年代

本青釉琮型飾皆模仿高古玉器，乃宋瓷典型之一。玉琮，器呈中空柱狀，並非容器，以中國東南部良渚文化所產玉琮尤為著名。上海博物館收藏一佳例，曾展於《良渚文化珍品展》，香港歷史博物館，香港，1992年，編號57。

可參考龍泉窰琮數例，出自各國重要收藏；一例現藏上海博物館，圖錄於《龍泉青瓷》，北京，1966年，圖版15；《故宮宋瓷圖錄·龍泉窯、哥窯、及其他各窯》記載一例，故宮博物院編纂，台北，1974年，圖版 8及 9； 另一例出自Eumorfopoulos 收藏，現藏於倫敦維多利亞與艾爾伯特博物館，見John Ayers，《Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum》，倫敦， 1980年，圖版 124；再比一例，出自Oppenheim收藏，現存於倫敦大英博物館，載於Jessica Rawson（編），《The British Museum Book of Chinese Art》，倫敦，1992年，圖版 8（左）。比較一例，出自Toguri收藏，售於倫敦蘇富比2004年6月9日，編號53；另一例出自Baron Hatvany收藏，曾展於《Song Ceramics》，東南亞陶瓷學會，新加坡，1983年，編號36，售於倫敦蘇富比1996年11月5日，編號605。另比兩例，其一售於香港蘇富比2012年4月4日，編號3122，另一例售於倫敦蘇富比2014年11月5日，編號23。