A rare Longquan celadon trumpet-necked baluster vase, China, Yuan-early Ming dynasty. Estimate 1800/2500 €. Unsold. Photo Nagel

H. 52,7 cm. Neck broken and re-stuck over the shoulder, re-stuck chip under the mouth rim.

Property from an old German private collection

Note: Longquan trumpet-neck vases are relatively rare. An example with scrolling chrysanthemum on the body is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 166, fig. 482. Two vases with lotus designs are known, one from the shipwreck off Sinan and included in the Special Exhibition of Cultural Found off Sinan Coast, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 1977, Catalogue, no. 23; another was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 April 2004, lot 282. See also two other examples with a plain body, one was included in the Illustrated Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Sung Porcelain, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1978, Catalogue, p. 82, no. 65; the other was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 111 

NAGEL. "Asian Art". Sale 722, 06/06/2015