A 'Longquan' celadon mallet vase Southern Song dynasty

of mallet shape, the cylindrical body rising from a recessed base to an angled shoulder, surmounted by a tall columnar neck with flattened wide everted mouthrim, flanked by stylized phoenix-head handles, covered overall in an even pale blue-green glaze

Nagatani Ltd., Chicago.

Similar vases are illustrated in Yutaka Mino and Katherine Tsiang, Ice and Green Clouds. Traditions of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1986, nos. 78(c)-(h), where the author notes that vases of this type have been highly valued by Japanese collectors since the Kamakura period.