A RARE LARGE 'LONGQUAN' CELADON VASE, MEIPING, EARLY MING DYNASTY | 明初 龍泉窰青釉梅瓶

Notable for its luminous and even celadon glaze, this vase is unusual for the pair of parallel lines incised on the shoulders and above the foot. Three jars of this type but of slightly larger size and lacking the incised lines, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, were included in the Museum’s exhibition Green Longquan Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2009, cat. nos 65, 66 and 67; one from the collection of Dr. Yokogawa Tamisuke, now in the Tokyo National Museum, is published in Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics II, Tokyo, 1990, pl. 486; another was sold in these rooms, 10th October 2004, lot 561; and a further example was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 1st November 1994, lot 18.

本瓶青釉明亮均勻，瓶肩及近足處刻平衡線，甚為獨特。台北故宮博物院收藏三罐例，尺寸稍大，無刻線，展於《碧綠—明代龍泉窰青瓷》，台北，2009年，編號65、 66及67；另比一例，出自橫河民輔收藏，現存於東京國立博物館，載於《東京國立博物館圖版目錄·中國陶磁篇II》，1990年，圖版486；另一例售於倫敦蘇富比2004年10月10日，編號561；尚有一例，售於香港蘇富比1994年11月1日，編號18。

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