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2455. (Lai 30676) One Jardiniere. "Chun-yao." Sung. Chinese.

[[left margin]] SMITHSONIAN. 1620 [[/left margin]]

Dense, hard, gray paste, molded in quatrefoil shape, elongated and deep, with narrow rim, and resting on four low scepter-head feet. It is coated with a brilliant glaze that can be called nothing less than superb, in the richness and perfection of its color quality, the characteristic hues varying from soft purple-red and lilac-gray to [[strikethrough]] v [[/strikethrough]] violet hunes and bluish-gray, the minute and delicate color particles finely commingled and the whole traversed by the strange, fascinating, earthworm meanderings. It exhibits, also, delicate, evanescent reflets of metallic quality and bluish note. On the interior the glaze is a luminous bluish-gray, with suggestions of the greenish robin's-egg tones, the upper section just within the rim, tinged with the violet, notes of the exterior. The earthworm markings continue on the interior, and in addition a crackle appears. Underneath the foot is a thin glaze of brownish-gray with russet patches. The bottom is pierced with five [[strikethrough]] russet patches [[/strikethrough]] circular apertures. 
Mark: the numeral nine incised under the foot. (Slight repair at rim.) This bulb jar, with the vases No's S. I. 1622 and 1623 were found in a large flower jar at a ruined house in the village of SSu, near Honan-fu, in 1914. 
Height, 4 5/8"; length, 8 1/6"; width 6 1/2". 
Wood stand.

Purchased from Lai-Yuan & Co., New York, Invoice dated January 17th, 1916, as per "Special" Voucher #1 January, 1916, $7,000.00, plus express, &c.  7050.00

2456. (Lai 30807) One Celadon Bowl, Sung, Chinese.

[[left margin]] SMITHSONIAN. 1621 [[/left margin]]

Dense, hard, gray paste, resonant and of musical tone, covered with a softly luminous celadon glaze, the hue a delicate grayish sea-green, suggesting in consistency the sea in its churning shallows, lightened by minute air bubles. The bowl is ovidal, on a low but bold foot, and is modeled in petal-form, the petals convex on the exterior and concave on the interior, where they appear in three concentric circles. The glaze, deepening in itsgreenish hue in the hollows, lightens to gray over the higher surfaces of the modeling and gives to the piece an agreeably mottled aspect. The edge is scalloped. (Slight chip at inner edge of rim.)
Height, 3 1/4"; diameter, 8".
Wood stand.

Purchased from Lai-Yuan & Co., New York, Invoice dated January 17, 1916, as per "Special" Voucher #1 January, 1916, $850., plus express,  860.00

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