Lot 612. A Guan-type 'Longquan' celadon vase, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Height 5 5/8  in., 14.3 cm. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USD. Lot Sold 22,500 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

the pear-shaped body rising from a thin wedge-shaped foot ring to a wide columnar neck with an everted rim, applied overall with an unctuous pale bluish-green glaze, the foot ring unglazed revealing the burnt orange body.

Provenance: Collection of George de Menasce (1890-1967).
Spink & Sons, Ltd., London.
Sotheby's London, 7th June 2000, lot 114. 

Exhibited: Mostra d'arte cinese [Exhibition of Chinese art], Venice, 1954, cat. no. 435. 
The George de Menasce Collection, Part I, Spink & Sons, Ltd., London, 1971, cat. no. 42.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 20 march 2019