Lot 650. A small 'Longquan' celadon vase, Song-Yuan dynasty. Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's

the cylindrical body surmounted by a tall slender neck rising to a broad everted rim, set to each side with a pair of lightly molded handles, incised with a double ring high on the neck and with further lightly incised line borders at the shoulder and foot, covered overall with a soft sea-green glaze, the unglazed foot fired brick-orange in the firing. Height 5 1/2  in., 13.9 cm.

Provenance: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat. 
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 7th November 1980, lot 148.

Exhibited: Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics: Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1947, cat. no. 90. 
Chinese Ceramics of the Sung Dynasty, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1959,  cat. no. 33.
Chinese Art, Smith College Museum, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1962,  cat. no. 121.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art New York, 15 Mar 2017