Lot 15. A Longquan celadon pear shaped vase, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279); 13.2cm (5 1/4in) high. (2). Sold for HKD 784,200 (Estimate HKD 200,000 - HKD 300,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022
With a pear-shaped body supporting a very broad neck and lipped rim, all supported on a straight foot of narrow cross-section, covered inside and out with a fine glaze of even grey-green colour and smooth surface suffused with wide colourless crackles, the footrim unglazed, box.
Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27 October 1993, lot 25.
Note: Vases such as the present piece are mostly standard objects for storing a pair of chopsticks and a spoon, and were made in a number of mediums such as gold, silver and porcelain. See a related Southern Song silver vase in the Pengzhou City Museum and a Longquan celadon vase in the Suining Museum, both illustrated by the National Museum of China in the Songyun: sichuan jiaocang wenwu jicui (The Style of Song: Selected Cultural Relics Unearthed from Sichuan Province), Beijing, 2006, p.170.
Lot 16. A Longquan celadon tripod incense burner, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279); 9.8cm (3 7/8in) diam. (2). Sold for HKD 570,000 (Estimate HKD 200,000 - HKD 300,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022
The compressed body relief-moulded with three narrow flanges each above a slightly tapering and conical leg, surmounted by a cylindrical neck rising to the flat, everted rim, the censer is covered overall with a soft green glaze of even tone ending at the bottom of the legs to expose the pale grey ware, box.
Provenance: Bluett and Sons Ltd., London (label)
Sakamoto Goro (1923-2016), by repute
An Asian private collection.
Note: See a related Southern Song to Ming dynasty longquan celadon tripod incense burner in the Zhejiang Museum, illustrated in Longquan of the World: Longquan Celadon and Globalization, Beijing, 2019, vol.2, pl.61; compare also with a Southern Song dynasty longquan celadon tripod incense burner of similar size, ibid., pl.45.
Lot 17. A Longquan celadon two-handled mallet-shaped vase, Song-Yuan Dynasty (960-1368); 17.2cm (6 3/4in) high. (2). Sold for HKD 570,000 (Estimate HKD 100,000 - HKD 150,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022
The tapering cylindrical body rising from a recessed base to an angled shoulder and tall cylindrical neck with a broad dished mouth, set at the neck with a pair of stylised phoenix handles and covered overall in a green glaze suffused with a network of crackles, box.
Provenance: John Sparks Ltd., London (by repute)
An Asian private collection.
Note: See a related Southern Song dynasty Longquan celadon two-handled vase in the Beijing Palace Museum of similar size, illustrated in Longquan of the World: Longquan Celadon and Globalization, Beijing, 2019, vol.2, pl.9.
Lot 18. A Longquan celadon vase, Song Dynasty (960-1279); 15.5cm (6 1/8in) high. (2). Sold for HKD 178,500 (Estimate HKD 100,000 - HKD 150,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022
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, stopping neatly above the foot exposing the pale brownish grey body, box.
Provenance: John Sparks Ltd., London (by repute)
An Asian private collection.
Note: A closely related example was sold at Sotheby's New York, 21 September 2022, lot 227.
Bonhams. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, Hong Kong, 30 November 2022
