Lot 183. A 'Guan'-type 'Longquan' celadon waterpot and a stopper, Song Dynasty (960-1279). Height 3 1/4  in., 8.2 cm. Estimate 10,000 — 15,000 USD. Lot Sold 65,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's

the globular body rising from three short cabriole legs to a short neck, covered inside and out with a pale gray-green glaze with delicate russet crackle, the feet unglazed revealing a reddish-brown body, together with two shards (4). 

Note: Two related Jiaotanxia Guanyao waterpots of similar form were sold in our London rooms, one with a stopper, 7th June 1994, lot 298, and one without, 9th June 1992, lot 136.

Waterpots of similar form but without stoppers are illustrated in Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery,New Haven, 1970, no. 313; in the Kempe Collection Catalogue, Stockholm, 1964, no. 134; and another in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 1, no. 467. 

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Works of Art, New York, 17 march 2015, 02:00 PM