A SMALL 'LONGQUAN' VASE SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

the globular-shaped body rising from a short slightly tapering foot to a tall broad cylindrical neck with everted dished rim, covered overall in an even rich olive-green glaze

On loan to the Brooklyn Museum, New York (1967-2009).

Overall good condition. The glaze is of a darker olive/gray tone than in the catalogue illustration
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A small 'Longquan' celadon vase of this exquisite Southern Song form, from the collection of Edward T. Chow, sold in our London rooms, 16th December 1980, lot 299, and is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, pl. 555. Another slightly smaller vase of similar shape, in the Longquan City Museum, is included in Zhongguo taoci quanji, vol. 8, Shanghai, 1999, pl. 73; and a related vase with a less globular body but similar long neck is published in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 456.