A FINE GREEN-BLUE CELADON GLAZED LONGQUAN LONG-NECK VASE, China, Song dynasty - Provenance: Important South German private collection, assembled between 1950 and 1987 - Cf. 'Precious as the Morning Star - 12th to 14th Century Celadons in the Qing Court Collection', National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2016, no. III-8, p. 193. Two more examples with straight mouth are in the Tokugawa Art Museum and Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, illustrated in Heavenly Blue: Southern Song Celadons, op. cit., p. 42, figs. 11-12. Compare also three long-necked vases with lipped rim, plausibly made in Guan kilns in Hangzhou: one covered with crackled celadon glaze is in the British Museum, London, illustrated in Asahi Shimbun, Song Ceramics, Tokyo, 1999, p. 100, no. 63; two covered with crackled yellowish glaze, known as beishoku celadon, illustrated in Heavenly Blue: Southern Song Celadons, op. cit., p. 82-83, figs. 58-59 - Very small chip to mouth rim Feine Longquan-Vase mit grünblauer craquelierter Seladonglasur CHINA, Song-Dynastie H. 15,6 cm Provenienz: Aus einer bedeutenden süddeutschen Privatsammlung, zwischen 1950 und 1987 gesammelt - Kleine Bestoßung an der Mündung