Beschreibung:

A LONGQUAN CELADON-GLAZED 'PHOENIX-TAIL' VASE, YEN-YENYuan Dynasty
The broad body applied with a single long continuous tendril coiling suspending four evenly spaced flower heads, between stiff leaves rising from the foot and horizontal ribs beneath the flaring rim, under a pale translucent even greyish-green glaze. 22cm (8 1/2in) high.Footnotes元 龍泉窯青釉貼塑纏枝花卉紋鳳尾尊
Provenance: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 20 November 2002
A European private collection
來源：Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約，2002年11月20日
歐洲私人收藏
The present vase is remarkable for its crisp and elegant floral decoration, which emerges under an attractive green glaze which accentuates the harmonious shape. Subtle details, such as the veining of the flowers and leaves, are visible through the glaze.
Spreading over Zhejiang Province into the neighbouring province of Fujian, the Longquan kilns were conveniently located to reach the trade ports of Wenzhou and Quanzhou, from where merchandise could be shipped to foreign markets in the Far East, India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and even Africa. This advantage was fully exploited in the Yuan and early Ming dynasty and large quantities of wares were made for foreign markets.
Longquan celadon-glazed wares with moulded and applied decoration first appeared in the late Southern Song dynasty and were produced in larger quantities during the Yuan dynasty. Compare a larger vase of the same form and decoration as the present lot, dated by inscription to AD 1327, in the Sir Percival David collection, the British Museum, illustrated by M.Medley, Yuan Porcelain and Stoneware, London, 1974, pl.58.
Compare with a related but larger Longquan celadon-glazed vase, Yuan dynasty, illustrated by S.Lee and Wai-kam Ho, Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), 1968, no.63.
A related but larger Longquan celadon-glazed vase, Yuan dynasty, was sold at Christie's New York, 15 May 2017, lot 501.