ID 905632
Lot 881 | A VERY RARE GUAN BOTTLE VASE
Estimate value
$ 700 000 – 900 000
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The small, pear-shaped vase has a tall, cylindrical neck and is covered overall with a thick glaze of pale-bluish-green tone suffused with a network of golden-brown crackles. The dark body is revealed where the glaze runs thin on the lipped mouth rim and on the wide ring foot wiped clean of glaze.
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high, cloth box
Provenance
Stephen D. Winkworth (d. 1938) Collection, London.
Sotheby's London, 26 April 1938, lot 32.
Dr. Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Ekolsund, Sweden.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4445.
Literature
B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 68, pl. 168.
Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 138.
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Stoneware |
| Historical era: | Song dynasty |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Vases and vessels |
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Stoneware |
| Historical era: | Song dynasty |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Vases and vessels |
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