Lot 503. A 'Longquan' Guan-type bottle vase, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Height 6⅛ in., 15.5 cm. Estimate 10,000 - 15,000 USD. Lot sold 40,320 USD. © Sotheby's 2020.

the pear shaped body supported on a slightly tapered foot and rising to a tall cylindrical neck and galleried rim, covered overall in a soft bluish-green glaze suffused with a delicate network of crackle, stopping neatly above the foot exposing the pale gray body, Japanese wood box (3).

Note: Compare a Longquan Guan-type vase of this form with a similarly crackled glaze from the Alfred Clark Collection, illustrated in G.St.G.M. Gompertz, Chinese Celadon Wares, London, 1958, pl. 73B, sold in our London rooms, 25th March 1975, lot 64.