A rare 'Beishoku' celadon-glazed bottle vase and stand, Southern Song dynasty

Mathias Komor, New York.

Ara Hajin, Los Angeles, 2007.

The term beishoku  ('rice colored', referring to the yellowish color of raw, unhulled rice grains, as opposed to mise in Chinese, which is used to describe opaque whitish glazes reminiscent of boiled, hulled rice) was first coined by the collector-connoisseur Tsuneo Yonaiyama, consul of Hangzhou in the 1950s, who collected many sherds from the Jiaotanxia kiln site. Highly revered for centuries in Japan since the Song dynasty, ceramics such as the present lot are most closely associated with the Guan and Longquan kilns.