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A Longquan celadon 'bow-string' vase, Xianwenping
Southern Song-Yuan Dynasty The tall-necked pear-shaped vase with seven horizontal bow-string raised lines, three together just above the widest point of the body, two together at the shoulder, and two single lines equally distanced to the neck, below a shallow cup-shaped mouth, all under a luminescent even celadon glaze pooling at the bow-string bands and stopping fairly-evenly above the short gray stoneware foot with brown-dressing, Japanese gilt repair at rim. 11 3/4in (29.8cm) high
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南宋至元 龍泉青釉弦紋瓶The fine, raised lines on vases of this type give the shape one of its Chinese names, xianwenping, 'string pattern vase'.These tall-necked vases with 'bow-string' bands were very much admired in Japan for their elegance of form and beauty of their glazes. This was evidenced when the wreck of a ship, ('Sinan Wreck'), which had foundered off the coast of Korea on its way to Japan, in AD 1323, was found to contain such items amongst its cargo of celadon wares. See National Museum of Korea, Sinan Wreck Exhibition, Seoul, 1977, no. 15.Vases of this form have also been excavated from kiln sites in the Longquan area, such as the example illustrated in Longquan Qingci Yanjiu, Beijing, 1989, pl. 41, fig. 1.For other examples, Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, no. 81, from the Nezu Museum; another in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art is published by Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares, London, 1977, pl. V, no. 50. Others are also illustrated in Newly Discovered Southern Song Ceramics - A Thirteenth-Century "Time Capsule", Japan, 1998, pp. 14-16, nos. 2-4, from a remarkable Southern Song hoard excavated at Jinyucun, Suining City, Sichuan province in 1991.A slightly smaller example was sold at Christie's, New York, 19 September 2013, lot 1276. Another example is illustrated in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1969-70/1970-71, London, 1972, in an edition for the exhibition 'The Ceramic Art of China', organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain and The Oriental Ceramic Society at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 9th June-25th July, 1971, no. 113, pl. 77; more recently, another sold at Christie's, New York, 22 March 2019, lot 1739.
