A 'Longquan' celadon multi-spouted jar and cover, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
Lot 70. A 'Longquan' celadon multi-spouted jar and cover, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Height 10¼ in., 26 cm. Estimate: 6,000 - 8,000 USD. Lot sold: 6,300 USD. © Sotheby's 2021
formed as three stacked bulbs diminishing in size as they ascend, each bulb incised with overlapping petals carefully detailed with fine striations, the middle bulb set with five faceted upright mock-spouts, the tips of the spouts carved with a serrated edge, all set over a slightly splayed foot and surmounted by a short upright neck, the tall domed cover formed as two layers of pendent petals and topped by a foliate finial enclosing a bud-form knop, covered overall in a pale olive-green glaze suffused with craquelure.
Property from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
Literature: Steven A. Nash, with Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik and Emese Wood, Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, Buffalo, 1979, p. 107.