a rare 'longquan' celadon 'hundred rib' jar and cover (guan) Yuan dynasty

beautifully potted, of wide baluster form swelling generously from a short, slightly tapered foot, the gently curved neck supporting the wide undulating cover, its flared rim in the form of a lotus leaf, the domed center featuring a knop in the form of a scrolling stem, accentuated throughout with slender vertical ribs, the unctuous bubble-suffused glaze pooling to a deeper green in the recesses, stopping short of the unglazed foot, revealing the pale gray body burnt reddish-orange in the firing (2)

Replica Shoes 's Hong Kong, 1st November 1994, lot 12.

The jar is in good condition with one minor glaze pull and very minute iron spots, barely visible. The foot rim with three small chips, the largest approximately 1/4 inch long. The cover with a 1 1/2 inch chip to the edge of an undulating portion of the rim, polished down and now very smooth. The glaze is very glossy and smooth overall. Inspected under UV light.
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Large 'Longquan' vessels of this elegant form and abstract ribbed design were much favored by the export market during the Yuan dynasty and can be found in many overseas collects ions. For example see a similar jar and cover recovered from the ship wrecked off the coast of Korea in 1323 A.D. illustrated in Relics Salvaged from the Seabed Off Sinan, Materials I, Seoul, 1985, pl. 30, fig. 37a and 37b, together with another jar of this type lacking its cover, pl. 31, fig.38. Compare also one from the collects ion of the Ottoman sultans and now in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, included in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, London, 1986, pl. 213.

A large jar and cover of this type can also be found in the Tokyo National Museum published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum. Chinese Ceramics II, Tokyo, 1990, cat.no. 14. Another, unearthed in 2002 and 2003 at the Jin and Yuan period ancient city site of Jininglu in Inner Mongolia, was published in Neimengu Jininglu guchen yizhi chutu taoqi, Beijing, 2004, pl. 61, and is of very similar size to the present jar. Compare also a jar and cover, from the Hardy collects ion, sold at Christie's New York, 21st September 1995, lot 121; and one with a later wood cover sold in these rooms, 6th December 1989, lot 144.