Delicately potted with rounded, vertically-lobed sides rising from a small foot ring, covered all over with a luminous glaze of sea-green tone suffused with a network of icy, colourless crackle, the interior of the foot and pointed base similarly glazed.

Provenance: The property of a New York collector, sold at Christie's New York, 19 March 2008, lot 559

Exhibited: National Museum of Japanese History, Culural History of Ceramic Ware, 24 March 1998 - 5 May 1998, Sakura City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 31   

Note: A very similar Longquan celadon bowl is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 3 (II), London, 2006, p. 583, no. 1572. The barbed form appears to be based on a prototype in silver, such as the silver-gilt bowl illustrated in Zhongguo wenwu jinghua doquan; Jin yin yu shi juan (Complete Masterpieces of Chinese Cultural Relics; Gold, Silver, Jade and Stone), Hong Kong, 1994, p. 139, no. 146, which was recovered from a Song dynasty hoard at Pingqiao, Liyang, in Jiangsu province. 

Christie's. The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 31 May 2010, Hong Kong