A YUAN DYNASTY LONGQUAN CéLADON-GLAZED JARLET AND COVER
7,5 cm high The exterior carved with vertical ribs below a short neck, the cover in the shape of a leaf of a lotus flower, overall covered with an olive-green glaze.
Provenance: Acquired before 1975. For a similar piece in the Baur Foundation, Geneve, see M. Crick, Chinese Trade Ceramics for South-East Asia from the 1st to the 17th Century. Collection of Ambassador and Mrs Charles Müller, Milan 2010, n. 54); another is illustrated in Chinese celadons and other related wares in Southeast Asia, Singapore 1979, pl. 114; a similar one is illustrated in J. Guy, Oriental Trade Ceramics in Southeast Asia. 10th to 16th Century, Melbourne 1980, n. 77; see also U. Wiesner, Chinesische Keramik auf den Philippinen. Die Sammlung Eric E, Geiling, Koln, pp. 106-107, n. 77.