A LONGQUAN CELADON RING-HANDLED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING, YUAN TO MING DYNASTY China, 1279-1644. The pear-shaped body rising from a slightly spreading foot to a waisted neck with flaring mouth, the neck applied with two C-shaped dragon handles suspending large fixed rings, covered overall with a bluish-green glaze thinning to white at the edges and around the carved decoration, the foot rim left unglazed and burnt orange in the firing. Provenance: Estate of Sear Hang Hwie Pao (1937-2009). Pao was one of Canada's leading dealers of Chinese porcelain and works of art. His antique store, Pao & Moltke Ltd., owned together with his wife Mrs. von Moltke, who descended from a German and Danish noble family, was a fixture in Toronto's trendy Yorkville area from the 1980s to early 2000s. Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear and firing irregularities. Weight: 965.1 g Dimensions: Height 24.6 cm Literature comparison: Compare two closely related vases, one in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum, illustrated in Celadons from Longquan Kilns, Taipei, 1998, plate 156, and another in the National Museum of Korea, published in Ye Peilan, Yuandai ciqi [Yuan dynasty porcelain], Beijing, 1998, plate 454. Auction result comparison: Compare a closely related vase, dated to the Yuan dynasty, at Sotheby's Hong Kong in Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, on 8 October 2013, lot 3010, sold for HKD 1,120,000, and another, also dated to the Yuan dynasty, at Sotheby's London in Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, on 10 November 2010, lot 188, sold for GBP 121,250. 元至明龍泉雙耳銜環玉壺春瓶 中國，1279-1644年。此玉壺春瓶瓶口外撇，束頸，溜肩，垂鼓腹，淺圈足。頸飾雙耳銜環。瓶身雕飾卷葉花飾。通體施青釉，釉色純淨，邊緣及四周變薄，足緣露胎。 來源：Sear Hang Hwie Pao (1937-2009) 遺產。Pao是加拿大中國瓷器和藝術品的主要經銷商之一。 他和妻子創立了Pao＆Moltke Ltd古玩店，他們的古玩店從1980年代到2000年代初期曾是多倫多時尚的Yorkville地區的熱門店鋪。 品相：狀況極好，有輕微磨損和燒製不規則。 重量：965.1 克 尺寸：高24.6 厘米 文獻比較：兩件相近玉壺春瓶，一件在浙江省美術館，見Celadons from Longquan Kilns, Taipei, 1998, plate 156, 一件在韓國國家美術館，見Ye Peilan, Yuandai ciqi [Yuan dynasty porcelain], Beijing, 1998, plate 454. 拍賣結果比較：一件相近的元代玉壺春瓶，在香港蘇富比Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art 2013年10月 8日 lot 3010, 售價HKD 1,120,000, 還有一件同樣元代于倫敦蘇富比Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art 2010年11月10日 lot 188, 售價GBP 121,250.