A 'Longquan' celadon-glazed bottle vase, Southern Song dynasty | 南宋 龍泉窰青釉長頸瓶

Collection of Colonel William Roy Hodgson (1892-1958), acquired in Tokyo in the 1950s.

來源：

William Roy Hodgson上校 (1892-1958) 收藏，1950年代購於東京

Chinese Ceramics Tang to Song, Marchant, London, 2022, cat. no. 41.

展覽:

《中國陶瓷：由唐至宋》，馬錢特，倫敦，2022年，編號41

This charming vase exemplifies the refinement of the classic Southern Song aesthetic, embodying ideals of simplicity and harmony in its unassuming yet elegant shape which perfectly complements the attractive, lustrous glaze. Suzanne G. Valenstein in A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p. 99, suggests that the rapid refinement of craftsmanship at the Longquan kilns during the Southern Song dynasty is to be attributed to the court extending its patronage to kilns outside the capital city, Hangzhou, probably including kilns in Longquan.

A vase of this type is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Tianxia Longquan: Longquan qingci yu quanqiu hua / Longquan of the World: Longquan Celadon and Globalization, vol. 2, Beijing, 2019, cat. no. 6; another from the collections of Mrs Alfred Clark and Edward T. Chow, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, pl. 555, was sold in our London rooms, 16th December 1980, lot 299, and again in our Hong Kong rooms, 20th November 1985, lot 5; one illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 456; two illustrated in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pls 96-97; another illustrated in Brian McElney, Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1, Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, cat. no. 96; one in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated in He Li, Chinese Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, pl. 272; one previously included in The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2009, cat. no. 22, and sold in these rooms, 16th March 2016, lot 251. Mason Wang in Song Ceramics: From the Laiyantang Collection / Songci wushi nian: Laiyantang zhencang, Singapore, 2010, pl. 38, illustrates a closely related vase alongside a silver vase of the same form excavated at Pengzhou, Sichuan province in 1993, suggesting this form to have come from silverware.

Colonel Willian Roy Hodgson was an Australian solider, public servant and diplomat who was involved in the formation of the United National General Assembly. The present lot was purchased during his time in Tokyo on the advice of Koyama Fujio, who was the former curator at the Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo.