Details
The Longquan vases have pear-shaped bodies rising from a small tapering foot and are covered all over with a crackled glaze of bluish-green tone. The second pair of pear-shaped vases are covered all over with a glaze of olive-green tone.
The Longquan vases 3½ in. (9 cm.) high
The larger pair of vases 4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high


Provenance
The Longquan vases: The Howard Back Collection
Both pairs of vases: The Carl Kempe Collection (1884-1967)
Both pairs of vases: Sotheby's London, 5 November 2008, lot 570.
Literature
Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pls 138 and 148.
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