Lot 652. A rare 'Yaozhou' bottle vase, Northern Song-Jin dynasty (960-1234). Height 6 1/2  in., 16.5 cm. Estimate 30,000 — 50,000 USD. © Sotheby's.

of elegant pear shape, the rounded body tapering into a waisted neck and sweeping out to a trumpet mouth, supported on a low, neatly cut foot, all covered in a translucent olive glaze permeated with a network of fine crackle, the glaze stopping neatly above the foot revealing the buff gray body, the recessed base partially glazed.

Provenance: Mathias Komor, New York, January 1951.
Collection of Myron S. (1907-1992) and Pauline B. (1910-2000) Falk, coll. no. 182.
Christie’s New York, 16th October 2001, lot 39.

Exhibited: Chinese Ceramic Masterpieces, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 1947.

Literature: Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montreal, 2015, pl. 142.