The southern song dynasty Longquan kiln celadon bottles of edges and corners

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John Sparks, London, about in the early 1980 s

Japanese private collections, on July 8, 1983 bought in John Sparks
this bottle belongs to the form of an official kilns have longquan celadon style of work, probably palace set of porcelain. Have a few pieces of works related to this bottle into perspective, a goldfish is sichuan village hoard unearthed a black child longquan celadon flower bottle mouth, cataloguing in longquan celadon porcelain research, Beijing, 2013, 8 color chart (figure 1). Another one is unearthed kiln mouth bottle wall flowers, hangzhou description in the studies of the southern song dynasty kilns by hangzhou, hangzhou, 2006, 148, 112 (figure 2). Goldfish village bottle is diamond cut, while section of this bottle is approximate to rectangle, modelling is more beautiful Xin long. This shape can be affected by early longquan celadon, may refer to a northern song dynasty longquan celadon vase, cataloguing in Zhu Boqian “longquan celadon celadon”, Taipei, 1998, 110, 71. Longquan imperial wares are usually black tyres, but this bottle is grey tyres and add the dark child juice, in order to achieve the same visual effect. The practice of longquan kilns can see the Palace Museum in Taipei, a bottle of longquan celadon cong type (so the porcelain n000000000 017700), is also added a dark tire juice.