J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
MenuPast Exhibition
The Gordon Collection:
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
March 12 - April 4, 2009
20.
A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON VASE
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
decorated with a broad frieze of carved peony scroll within double-line borders over the broad rounded shoulders and with overlapping petals rising from the neatly pared wide ring foot, with freely combed details throughout, the cylindrical neck and cup-shaped mouth left plain, covered with a translucent glaze of light bluish-green tone, the mouth rim and recessed base left unglazed and the exposed ware burnt pale russet-brown in the firing.
Height 7 1⁄4 inches (18.4 cm)
A very similarly carved Longquan vase of this form, formerly in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Clark, is illustrated by Gompertz, Chinese Celadon Wares, London, 1980, pl. 73, p. 151.
Another carved Longquan vase of closely related form and style, excavated in 1977 at Longquan city from a tomb dated to the reign of emperor Yuan Feng (A.D. 1078-1085), is illustrated in Longquan Yao Qingci (Celadons from Longquan Kilns), Taipei, 1998, no. 64, p. 104.
北宋 龍泉青瓷劃花紋瓶 高 18.4 厘米
