A RARE CARVED 'YAOZHOU' CELADON WINE BOTTLE NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH/ 12TH CENTURY of elegant, slender pear shape with a narrow, trumpet-shaped neck, resting on a low, neatly cut foot, the body carved and combed with a fanciful flower scroll, circling the vase in an undulating movement, its four trefoil blooms alternating on both sides to appear upright or pending and the space between evenly filled with foliage, and the neck incised with a broad band of upright and pendant pointed petals enclosed between double lines, all covered with an olive-green glaze that pools to a deeper tone in the recessed areas, thus emphasizing the design, base and footring are unglazed, revealing a light grey ware, and the inside of the neck shows strong ribs from turning in Japanese padded purple silk cloth, ribbon-tied paulownia-wood box and cover, and brown cotton furoshiki with inscribed wooden tag 22cm., 8 3/4 in.
A RARE CARVED 'YAOZHOU' CELADON WINE BOTTLE NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH/ 12TH CENTURY of elegant, slender pear shape with a narrow, trumpet-shaped neck, resting on a low, neatly cut foot, the body carved and combed with a fanciful flower scroll, circling the vase in an undulating movement, its four trefoil blooms alternating on both sides to appear upright or pending and the space between evenly filled with foliage, and the neck incised with a broad band of upright and pendant pointed petals enclosed between double lines, all covered with an olive-green glaze that pools to a deeper tone in the recessed areas, thus emphasizing the design, base and footring are unglazed, revealing a light grey ware, and the inside of the neck shows strong ribs from turning in Japanese padded purple silk cloth, ribbon-tied paulownia-wood box and cover, and brown cotton furoshiki with inscribed wooden tag 22cm., 8 3/4 in.
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