Lot 240
The compressed, spreading body is carved with a series of shallow horizontal grooves, and the tall tapering neck is encircled by two bow-string bands in imitation of bamboo below the wide, galleried mouth with incurved rim. The vase is covered overall with an ice-crackle glaze of blue-green color ending just above the unglazed foot rim.
This elegant vessel is celebrated for its harmonious form and exquisite glaze. The raised encircling lines on the neck lend it one of its Chinese names, xianwenping, or "vase with bow-string decoration." Two larger Longquan bottle vases with similar profiles and decorations are documented: one in the Tokyo Nezu Museum, illustrated in G. St. G. M. Gompertz's Chinese Celadon Wares (London, 1980, p. 153, pl. 75a), and another in the Hakone Art Museum, published in Mayuyama, Seventy Years (vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, p. 164, fig. 476). A closely related example is housed in the Palace Museum, Beijing, featured in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (II) (Hong Kong, 1996, p. 115, no. 103), also see Longquan of the World: Longquan Celadon and Globalization, Vol. 1, A History of Thousands of Years, no. 20, p66.
Vases of this form are typically crafted with two distinct mouth rim types: a wide, dish-shaped mouth or a slightly inverted galleried rim, to which the present vase belongs. For comparison, see a vase in the Nezu Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu (vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, no. 81), and another in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, catalogued in M. Medley's Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares (London, 1977, pl. V, no. 50).
Evidence suggests these two rim types were contemporaneous, supported by finds from a Southern Song hoard excavated at Jinyucun, Suining City, Sichuan Province, in 1991, and from Longquan kiln sites. The former is discussed in Newly Discovered Southern Song Ceramics - A Thirteenth-Century "Time Capsule" (Japan, 1998, pp. 14-16, nos. 2-4), and the latter in Longquan Qingci Yanjiu (Beijing, 1989, pl. 41, fig. 1).
Additionally, vases of this form were part of the cargo from a shipwreck dated to 1323, found off the Sinan coast of Korea en route to Japan. For further details, see the Sinan Wreck Exhibition (National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 1977, no. 15). Compare to a smaller example (15.6cm high), see Christie's Hong Kong, 30/11/2023, lot 2907. Also see another larger example (27.3cm high), sold at Christie's New York, 20/9/2013, lot 1276.
或为南宋 龍泉青釉弦紋盤口瓶
20.7cm high
Estimate $8,000 - $12,000
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Fine Chinese and Asian Art
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8763
11:00am - 2 March 2025
Hawthorn
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