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An Outstanding 'GUAN' OCTAGONAL VASE SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY |

Sold for HK$113,880,000 at Sotheby's on Apr 7, 2015.

Pale blue-green crackle-glazed octagonal vase with a tall neck and flared rim on a white background.

Lot description

superbly potted, of octagonal section, the compressed globular body rising from a short recessed foot to an angled shoulder encircled by a raised fillet and surmounted by a tall tapering neck elegantly sweeping to an everted flat mouthrim, exquisitely potted with two raised horizontal ribs above a faintly discernible protruding fillet encircling the base of the neck, the dark brown body unctuously veiled overall in a lustrous bluish-celadon glaze thinning at the extremities save for the unglazed footring, the glaze suffused with a network of luminous golden-beige crackles, two Japanese paulownia wood boxes

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