J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

A shard of a vase of this form excavated at Longquanxian is illustrated by Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, B.M.F.E.A., No. 42, Stockholm, 1970, fig. 30c (16), together with a larger vase of the same form, pl. 39l. A Longquan celadon vase of very similar size and the same design as the present example, recovered from a ship wrecked off the coast of Korea in or shortly after A.D. 1323, is illustrated in the catalogue of the exhibition at the National Museum of Korea entitled Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Found Off Sinan Coast, Seoul, 1977, no. 7.

Compare also the small Longquan celadon mallet-form vase with phoenix handles excavated in Gudong, Hangzhou, and now in the Hangzhou History Museum, illustrated in Cuise, Zhuoyu, Meiqing: Yue Yao, Yaozhou Yao, Longquan Yao Qingci Wenhua Duibi Yenjiu (Cuise, Zhuoyu, Meiqing: The Comparison Studies of Yue, Yaozhou, and Longquan Wares), Hangzhou, 2007, p. 120, and the similar small mallet-form vase illustrated in the catalogue of the special exhibition entitled Sensei Bansei to Ryusenyo no Seiji (Sansei, Bansei, and Celadon of Longquan Wares) at the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art, Izumi, 1996, no. 11, p. 41.

Other Longquan celadon mallet vases with phoenix handles are illustrated by Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, pl. 80a; and in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 3, Museum Pusat, Jakarta, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 130.