Fine Asian Art - 11th November 2025
Lot 179
A RARE CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON 'FUNERARY' JAR AND COVER
Estimate £20,000 - £30,000 | Hammer £22860
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Description
A RARE CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON 'FUNERARY' JAR AND COVER
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY
The body carved with overlapping upright leaves, applied with a large tiger with incised stripes coiled around the shoulder facing a recumbent lamb, the shallow domed cover surmounted by a bird finial, covered overall with a sea-green glaze, 26.4cm. (2)
From an English private collection, Dorset, purchased from Bonhams London, 10th November 2016, lot 42, a copy of the invoice is available.
Funerary jars such as this would have originally been made in pairs; one bearing the 'Green Dragon of the East' and the other with 'The White Tiger of the West'. See The British Museum, accession no. PDF.204 for a pair of related jars from The Percival David Collection. Refer also to the example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. 34.113.4a,b for another similar jar.
南宋 龍泉青釉貼塑攀虎紋蓋瓶
來源：英國多賽特私人收藏，購於倫敦邦瀚斯2016年11月10日·編號42 （附發票復印件）。