A RARE AND IMPORTANT MOLDED AND BISCUIT-RESERVED LONGQUAN CELADON OCTAGONAL VASE, MEIPING

Lot 927
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$ 600 000
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Lot 927 | A RARE AND IMPORTANT MOLDED AND BISCUIT-RESERVED LONGQUAN CELADON OCTAGONAL VASE, MEIPING
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$ 600 000 – 800 000
A RARE AND IMPORTANT MOLDED AND BISCUIT-RESERVED LONGQUAN CELADON OCTAGONAL VASE, MEIPING

YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY

Well-potted with a short tapering octagonal neck and low, flaring foot, the vase has eight facets each molded in relief and reserved in the biscuit with a lobed panel containing one of the Eight Daoist Immortals surrounded by trailing clouds, and is decorated above and below in low relief with conforming panels of alternating peonies and chrysanthemum borne on leafy branches. The body is covered with a celadon glaze of deep sea-green tone, with the concave base glazed and the unglazed foot ring burnt a bright rust color.

10 in. (25.4 cm.) high





Provenance

Chingwah Lee (1901-1980) Collection, San Francisco.

Sotheby’s Los Angeles, 8 June 1981, lot 306.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Chia Collection, Singapore.

An Important Private Collection of Chinese Celadons and Other Ceramics: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 November 1996, lot 611.

Eskenazi, London.

The Property of a Gentleman; Christie’s New York, 22 March 1999, lot 271.



Literature

J. Thompson, “Chinese Celadons: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Chia,” Arts of Asia, November-December 1993, p. 67, fig. 10 (right).

S. Little, Taoism and the Arts of China, Chicago, 2000, p. 319, no. 117.



Exhibited

Taoism and the Arts of China, Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 4 November 2000 - 7 January 2001; San Francisco, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 21 February - 13 May 2001.
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