Mayuyama & Co., Ltd, Tokyo.

A Japanese private collection.

繭山龍泉堂，東京

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Vases of this t🍰ype, with an elegant, slender neck, are extremely rare and epitomise the mastery of porcelain production attained during the Song dynasty. The elegantౠ 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 Jꦕin 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。