A rare Longquan Guan-type celadon-glazed spittoon, zhadou


Southern Song DynastyThe compressed globular body supported on a hollow gently splayed foot and rising to a wide neck flaring at the rim, covered with an icy grey-blue crackled glaze thinning to a gray-brown at the mouth rim, with box. 13.1cm (5 1/8in) diam. (2).
|南宋 龍泉窯仿官釉渣斗Provenance: acquired from R & V Tregaskis, Sydney, on 6 November 2009, no.2910 The Reid Collection來源： 於2009年11月6日購自悉尼古董商R & V Tregaskis，編號2910Reid 收藏Longquan celadon-glazed zhadou vessels attributed to the Song dynasty are rare. The present example is remarkable for its exceptionally large size. Compare with a smaller example in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum, illustrated in Longquan Celadon of China, Hangzhou, 1998, pl.70; another discovered among a group of Song ceramics excavated at Lueyang, Shaanxi province, is illustrated in Wenwu, 1976, no.11, pl.6, fig.5; and a third is included in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl.474. See also another zhadou of similar propertions but smaller size, illustrated by R.Krahl, Yuegutang, A Collection of Chinese Ceramics in Berlin, Berlin, 2000, no.226. Fragments of these smaller zhadou recovered from kilnsites at Dayao, Longquan county, Zhejiang Province, are illustrated in Longquan qingci yanjiu, Beijing, 1989, pl.6, fig.5. The latter examples appear to have much greener and slightly inferior crackled glazes.