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"Phoenix Tail" Vase (龍泉窯青釉瓶)

"Phoenix Tail" Vase (龍泉窯青釉瓶)

1300s
Location: not on view

Description

Monumental celadon vases were used for flower arrangements, often in pairs in temples or larger households. Most of them, like this example, have survived in Japan. The vase’s glaze is of exceptional color and consistency.

By the Yuan dynasty, Longquan potters mastered techniques to fire vases, jars, and plates of enormous sizes and in great quantities. Some 300 kilns were active in the Longquan area, in Zhejiang province, to supply the domestic and export markets, such as Japan, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. Celadons reached Europe as early as the 1400s.
  • before 1940–2017
    Fujita Museum, Osaka, Japan
    March 15, 2017
    (Christie's New York, Important Chinese Art from the Fujita Museum, New York, NY, Sale 14319, 15 March 2017, lot 501. Sold to Eskenazi.)
    2017
    (Eskenazi Oriental Art, London, UK, purchased at auction 15 March 2017, sold to the MCH Foundation)
    2017–
    The MCH Foundation
  • Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. Important Chinese art from the Fujita Museum = Zong qi bao hui - Tengtian mei shu guan cang Zhongguo gu dai yi shu zhen pin. Sale 14319, 15 March 2017. Lot 501 Reproduced: lot 501
    Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. Important Chinese art from the Fujita Museum = Zong qi bao hui - Tengtian mei shu guan cang Zhongguo gu dai yi shu zhen pin. Sale 14319, 15 March 2017. Lot 501 Reproduced: lot 501
    Fujita Bijutsukan. Fujita Bijutsukan shozōhin zuroku = illustrated catalogue masterpieces in the Fujita Museum of Art. Ōsaka: Fujita Bijutsukan, 1954. no. 45
    Fujita Bijutsukan. Fujita Bijutsukan meihin zuroku. Tōkyō: Nihon keiza shimbunsha, 1972. no. 339
  • China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).
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