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Lot Essay
The broad globular body surmounted by a tall nearly cylindrical neck with widely flaring angled everted rim, raised on a tall ring foot, covered overall on the interior and exterior with a thick opaque greyish-green glaze falling precisely short of the foot rim, the underside similarly glazed leaving the unglazed neatly finished foot rim burnt orange in the firing and revealing the grey body.
A vase of similar form excavated from one of the kiln sites at Dayao, Longquan, which is characterised as the site yielding the most mature style of Longquan celadon dating from the late Southern Song dynasty, is illustrated in Longquan Qingci Yanjiu, Beijing,1989, pl.23, fig. 3, and p. 56, fig. 10(10).
A vase of similar form excavated from one of the kiln sites at Dayao, Longquan, which is characterised as the site yielding the most mature style of Longquan celadon dating from the late Southern Song dynasty, is illustrated in Longquan Qingci Yanjiu, Beijing,1989, pl.23, fig. 3, and p. 56, fig. 10(10).