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

Southern Song Dynasty

Southern Song Dynasty
The 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).

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Provenance: acquired from R & V Tregaskis, Sydney, on 6 November 2009, no.2910
The Reid Collection

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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.