Lot 632. A lobed celadon-glazed vase, Song-Yuan dynasty (960-1367). Estimate 70,000 — 90,000 HKD. Lot sold 87,500 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's.

beautifully potted with a baluster body resting on a splayed foot and rising to a flared rim, the rhomboid-sectioned body with two angular edges interrupting the lobed sides, covered with a translucent greyish-turquoise glaze suffused with a fine network of beige crackles, the rim and foot accentuated with Japanese gilt-lacquered decoration; 14.4 cm, 5 5/8  in.

Provenance: Mayuyama & Co. Ltd., Tokyo.

Note: A vase of this elegant form is illustrated in James Spencer, Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, pl. 43; another is published in Zhu Boqian ed., Celadons from Longquan Kilns, Taipei, 1998, pl. 118-1; and a larger vase is published in Longquan Celadon of China/ Zhongguo Longquan qingci, Hangzhou, 1998, pl. 166.