A 'LONGQUAN' CELADON BEAKER VASE, GU MING DYNASTY

the body of slender cylindrical form, rising from a short spreading foot to a widely flaring trumpet neck and mouth, moulded around the central section and foot with four notched vertical flanges and covered overall in a pale soft celadon-green glaze, the footring burnt orange in the firing

Vessels of this type are after bronze forms. See a 'Longquan' beaker vase in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in Rose Kerr, Song Dynasty Ceramics, LOndon, 2004, pl. 94; and another sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 5th November 1997, lot 1364.