A Longquan' celadon vase, Southern Song Dynasty. Estimate 150,000 — 200,000 HKD (16,995 - 22,660 EUR). Photo Sotheby's.

of well potted ovoid form rising from a slightly tapered foot to a cylindrical neck flaring at the lipped rim, covered overall save the footring with a lustrous glaze of soft-green colour permeated with small white flecks - 14.9 cm., 5 7/8  in.

Notes: A vase of this type, from the collections of Mrs Alfred Clarke and Edward T. Chow, was sold in our London rooms, 16th December 1980, lot 299, and is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, pl. 555; one, from the Carl Kempe collection and now in the Museum of far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, is published in Oriental Ceramics. The World’s Great Collections, 1982, vol. 8, pl. 146; and another in the Musée Guimet, Paris, is illustrated Terre de Neige, de Glace, et d’Ombre, Taipei, 1999, pl. 33. A similar pair was also sold in these rooms, 14th November 1983, lot 83.

Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 03 déc. 2015, 02:00 PM