A Longquan celadon 'dragon' jar and a cover, Southern Song dynasty 南宋 龍泉青釉龍紋蓋罐

Christie's London, 15th February 1971, lot 6.

倫敦佳士得1971年2月15日，編號6

Funerary jars of this type usually occur in pairs, one adorned with the 'Green Dragon of the East' and the other the 'White Tiger of the West'. Compare a similar jar in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, illustrated in Yutaka Mino and Katherine R. Tsiang, Ice and Green Clouds. Traditions of Chinese Celadons, Indiana, 1987, pl. 75.