A fine green-blue celadon glazed Longquan long-neck vase, Song dynasty (960-1279)
Lot 509. A fine green-blue celadon glazed Longquan long-neck vase, Song dynasty (960-1279); H. 15,6 cm. Estimate: € 10,000 - €15,000. Result: € 13,000. Courtesy Nagel.
Provenance: Important South German private collection, assembled between 1950 and 1987.
Cf. 'Precious as the Morning Star - 12th to 14th Century Celadons in the Qing Court Collection', National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2016, no. III-8, p. 193.
Two more examples with straight mouth are in the Tokugawa Art Museum and Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, illustrated in Heavenly Blue: Southern Song Celadons, op. cit., p. 42, figs. 11-12.
Compare also three long-necked vases with lipped rim, plausibly made in Guan kilns in Hangzhou: one covered with crackled celadon glaze is in the British Museum, London, illustrated in Asahi Shimbun, Song Ceramics, Tokyo, 1999, p. 100, no. 63; two covered with crackled yellowish glaze, known as beishoku celadon, illustrated in Heavenly Blue: Southern Song Celadons, op. cit., p. 82-83, figs. 58-59.
Fine Asian Art, Stuttgart - Part I by Nagel Auction, December 8, 2020