南宋 龍泉窰青釉琮式瓶

modelled after an archaic jade cong, each long edge of the square-sectioned body with eight raised horizontal bands within a raised rectangular frame, all supported on a short foot and surmounted by a gently tapered neck, covered overall save for the footring with a lustrous celadon glaze draining to pale bluish-white at the raised edges and pooling to sea-green at the recessed areas

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There are two areas of bruise to the rim, one with an associated circa 6.5cm zigzag hairline crack. Some small chips to the corners of the cong, the largest measuring approx. 1.5cm wide to one upper corner, with an associated 3.2cm hairline running diagonally from the flake. There is a 1.8x0.5cm shallow glaze flake/flaw to a corner next to this. Some frits and minor flakes to the edges.
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此類琮式瓶，形與色皆仿高古玉器，乃宋瓷典型之一。玉琮，器呈中空柱狀，並非容器，以中國東南部良渚文化所產玉琮尤為著名。上海博物館收藏一佳例，曾展於《良渚文化珍品展》，香港歷史博物館，香港，1992年，編號57。

可參考龍泉窰琮式瓶數例，出自各國重要收藏。一例現藏上海博物館，圖錄於《龍泉青瓷》，北京，1966年，圖版15。《故宮宋瓷圖錄．龍泉窰、哥窰及其他各窰》載一例，東京，1974年，圖版8及9。Eumorfopoulos 藏一例，現存倫敦維多利亞與艾伯特博物館，見 John Ayers，《Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum》，倫敦，1980年，圖版 124。Oppenheim 收藏也有一例，現存倫敦大英博物館，載於羅森編，《The British Museum Book of Chinese Art》，倫敦，1992年，圖版8左。

戶栗舊藏有一類似之瓶，售於倫敦蘇富比2004年6月9日，編號53。Baron Hatvany 也有一例，曾展於《Song Ceramics》，東南亞陶瓷學會，新加坡，1983年，編號36，售於倫敦蘇富比1996年11月5日，編號605。