A rare Ding-type white-glazed bottle vase, Northern Song - Jin dynasty | 北宋至金 定窰系白釉長頸瓶

Mayuyama & Co., Ltd, Tokyo.

A Japanese private collection.

繭山龍泉堂，東京

日本私人收藏

Vases of this type, with an elegant, slender neck, are extremely rare and epitomise the mastery of porcelain production attained during the Song dynasty. The elegant bottle form, with a pear-shaped body and expertly formed tall neck, was popular with several northern kilns at this period.

See a Dingyao bottle with a slightly everted rim in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, and published in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, col. pl. 84, was sold in our London rooms, 6th July 1971, lot 64, and again at Christie's Tokyo, 17th February 1980, lot 741. Compare also a slightly shorter Jin dynasty vase with a wider flared rim, formerly from the collection of George Eumorfopoulous and now in the British Museum, accession no. 1936,1012.26.

此式瓷瓶，雅作纖長器頸，宋時多個北方窰場有製。置瓶齋室中，插花一株，別有韻味。然長頸燒製殊艱，非巧手精工難成，故極罕。秀瓶如此，見證當時陶冶絕藝。

東京出光美術館藏定窰長頸瓶，可資對比，其口微撇，圖見《中國陶磁．出光美術館藏品図錄》，東京，1987年，彩圖版84，曾先後在倫敦蘇富比及東京佳士得易手，分別為1971年7月6日，編號64，及1980年2月17 日，編號741。且參考尤莫弗普勒斯舊藏金朝瓶例 口外撇，器較矮，現貯倫敦大英博物館，藏品編號 1936,1012.26。