15th Oct, 2021 10:00

TWO-DAY AUCTION - Fine Chinese Art / 中國藝術集珍 / Buddhism & Hinduism

 
  Lot 176
 

176

A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON KINUTA (MALLET) VASE WITH PHOENIX HANDLES, SOUTHERN SONG
南宋罕見龍泉青釉雙鳳耳瓶

Sold for €4,045

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Lot details

China, 1127-1279. The mallet-shaped body rising to a wide everted rim, set to the neck with a pair of stylized phoenix handles with detailed crown and wings, covered overall with a glaze of olive-green tone stopping above the foot burnt orange in the firing.

Provenance: From a New York private collection and thence by descent to the present owner.
Condition: Excellent condition with only minor wear and firing irregularities as well as occasional light glaze lines.

Weight: 427.3 g
Dimensions: Height 18.3 cm

Literature comparison: Published examples include one in the Bishmon-do Temple, previously in the possession of a branch of the Tokugawa Family, the former Daimyos of Kyushu, illustrated by Gompertz, Chinese Celadon Wares, London, Hong Kong, 1962, 1980, plate 78, and another two illustrated ibidem, one from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, color plate G and the other, from the Yomei Bunko Collection, plate 80, and finally one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Lung-Chuan Ware of the Sung Dynasty, plates 5 and 5a. Mallet vases with dragon and phoenix handles were also found in the wreck of a Yuan dynasty ship near Sinan and were included in the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Found off Sinan Coast, Seoul, 1977, and illustrated in the catalogue, plates 4-7.

Auction result comparison: Compare a closely related Longquan celadon mallet vase, also dated to the Southern Song dynasty and with near-identical twin phoenix handles, at Christie’s Hong Kong in Important Chinese Art on 30 October 2001, lot 777, sold for HKD 235,000.

南宋罕見龍泉青釉雙鳳耳瓶
中國,1127-1279年。雙耳瓶小盤口,直頸,折肩,直腹,圈足。頸部兩側各置一鳳耳。通體施青釉,圈足処呈橘色。

來源:紐約私人收藏,保存直至現任藏家。
品相:狀況極佳,僅有輕微磨損和燒製不規則以及偶爾出現的淺色釉線。

重量:427.3 克
尺寸:高18.3 厘米

拍賣結果比較:一件相近的南宋龍泉青釉雙鳳耳瓶,香港佳士得 The Important Chinese Works of Art 2001年10月30日,lot 777, 售價HKD 235,000。

 

China, 1127-1279. The mallet-shaped body rising to a wide everted rim, set to the neck with a pair of stylized phoenix handles with detailed crown and wings, covered overall with a glaze of olive-green tone stopping above the foot burnt orange in the firing.

Provenance: From a New York private collection and thence by descent to the present owner.
Condition: Excellent condition with only minor wear and firing irregularities as well as occasional light glaze lines.

Weight: 427.3 g
Dimensions: Height 18.3 cm

Literature comparison: Published examples include one in the Bishmon-do Temple, previously in the possession of a branch of the Tokugawa Family, the former Daimyos of Kyushu, illustrated by Gompertz, Chinese Celadon Wares, London, Hong Kong, 1962, 1980, plate 78, and another two illustrated ibidem, one from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, color plate G and the other, from the Yomei Bunko Collection, plate 80, and finally one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Lung-Chuan Ware of the Sung Dynasty, plates 5 and 5a. Mallet vases with dragon and phoenix handles were also found in the wreck of a Yuan dynasty ship near Sinan and were included in the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Found off Sinan Coast, Seoul, 1977, and illustrated in the catalogue, plates 4-7.

Auction result comparison: Compare a closely related Longquan celadon mallet vase, also dated to the Southern Song dynasty and with near-identical twin phoenix handles, at Christie’s Hong Kong in Important Chinese Art on 30 October 2001, lot 777, sold for HKD 235,000.

南宋罕見龍泉青釉雙鳳耳瓶
中國,1127-1279年。雙耳瓶小盤口,直頸,折肩,直腹,圈足。頸部兩側各置一鳳耳。通體施青釉,圈足処呈橘色。

來源:紐約私人收藏,保存直至現任藏家。
品相:狀況極佳,僅有輕微磨損和燒製不規則以及偶爾出現的淺色釉線。

重量:427.3 克
尺寸:高18.3 厘米

拍賣結果比較:一件相近的南宋龍泉青釉雙鳳耳瓶,香港佳士得 The Important Chinese Works of Art 2001年10月30日,lot 777, 售價HKD 235,000。

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