A 'LONGQUAN' CELADON VASE SONG DYNASTY

A small 'Longquan' celadon vase of this exquisite Southern Song form, from the collection of Mrs. Alfred Clark and Edward T. Chow, sold in these 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.

A related vase was discovered in a Yuan tomb at Dongxi, Jianyang county, Sichuan province, and is published in Wenwu, 1987, no. 2, pl. 7, fig. 3. Compare also one from the Kempe collection in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, 1980-82, vol. viii, no. 146; another included in Ireneus Laszlo Legeza, A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics,  London, 1972, pl. XXX, no. 92 and 93; and another in the Michel Calmann collection, now in the Musee Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Terra de neige, de Glace, et d'Ombre, Taipei, 1999, cat.no. 33. See also a vase sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 20th November 1985, lot 5; and another sold in these rooms, 7th June 2000, lot. 114.