Lot 688. A Cizhou-type brown painted black-glazed ovoid bottle, Jin dynasty (1115-1234). Height 22 cm. Price realised EUR 5,292 (Estimate EUR 5,000 – EUR 8,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.

Provenance: Private Collection, Japan.
Collection of James E. Breece III.
Christie's, New York, 20 March 2014, lot 2084.

Note: Ovoid jars of this type, with these distinctive small, ringed mouths, are termed xiaokou ping (small-mouthed bottles) and were probably sealed with a fabric-wrapped wooden dowel and used for storing wine and other liquids. Typically dark-glazed, such bottles are often painted in russet or rust-brown slip with abstract floral decoration or designs suggestive of birds in flight, rendered in vigorous, calligraphic strokes. A bottle of this type, painted distinctly with stems of chrysanthemum, from the collection of Robert E. Barron III, M.D., was sold at Christie's New York, 30 March 2005, lot 303.

Lot 689. A Longquan celadon twin-handled baluster vase, Yuan-Ming dynasty (1279-1644). Height 22.6 cm. Price realised EUR 5,040 (Estimate EUR 4,000 – EUR 6,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.

Provenance: With Mayuyama & Co, Tokyo, 3 March 1952.

Lot 691. A Longquan celadon 'lotus' vase, Ming dynasty, 15th century. Total height 48.2 cm. Price realised EUR 882 (Estimate EUR 2,000 – EUR 3,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.

Property from an Italian Private Collection

Lot 69. A green and yellow-glazed chimaera-form candle holder, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th century. Width 44 cm. Price realised EUR 1,368 (Estimate EUR 3,000 – EUR 5,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.

Christie's. Art of Asia, Paris, 13 December 2024