Lot 716. A small Longquan celadon long-necked vase, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279); 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm.) high. Estimate USD 30,000 - USD 50,000. Price realised USD 245,000.  © Christie's Images Ltd 2016.

The vase has a compressed globular body raised on a tall cylindrical foot, and a tall neck that rises to an everted mouth rim. The vase is covered with an even glaze of sea-green tone, with the exception of the ring foot which is burnt to a reddish-brown color, Japanese wood box.

Provenance: Helene S. Thompson Collection.
Robert M. Ferris IV Collection, Windsor, VT.
J. J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art, New York. 

Literature: J. J. Lally & Co., Brush & Clay: Paintings by Robert Ferris. Chinese Ceramics of the Song Dynasty from the Artists’ Collection, New York, 1997, p. 46-7, no.1. 
Christie’s, The Classical Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, p. 170, no. 70.

Exhibited: J. J. Lally & Co., Brush & Clay: Paintings by Robert Ferris. Chinese Ceramics of the Song Dynasty from the Artists’ Collection, New York, 1997. 
Christie’s, The Classical Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 22 to 27 November 2012; New York, 15 to 20 March 2013; London, 10 to 14 May 2013. 

Notes: A Longquan vase with a more compressed body and of larger size (21.7 cm.) was included in the exhibition catalogue, Heavenly Blue: Southern Song Celadons, Tokyo, 2010, p. 43, fig. 13. Another larger example with a slightly more rounded silhouette is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and illustrated inOriental Ceramics: the World’s Great Collections, vol. 12:Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1982, no. 52 (21.3 cm. high.). A pair of Longquan long-necked vase of similar form and proportion but without lipped mouths was excavated from a Southern Song hoard in Jinyucun, Suining city, Sichuan province, and is illustrated in Heavenly Blue: Southern Song Celadons, op. cit., p. 140, fig. 15-19 ( 16.9 cm. high.). Two further larger examples with straight mouth rims are in the Tokugawa Art Museum and Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, illustrated in Heavenly Blue: Southern Song Celadons, op. cit., p. 42, figs. 11-12 (25 and 22.8 cm. high.). Compare also, three long-necked Longquan vases with lipped rims, possibly made at the Guan kilns in Hangzhou: one covered with crackled celadon glaze, in the British Museum, London, illustrated in Song Ceramics, Tokyo, 1999, p. 100, no. 63 (23.3 cm. high); the other two covered with crackled yellowish glazes, known as beishoku celadon, illustrated in Heavenly Blue: Southern Song Celadons, op. cit., p. 82-83, figs. 58-59 (22.6 and 22.1 cm. high).

Christie's. The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: The Linyushanren Collection, Part II - 15 September 2016, New York, Rockefeller Plaza