Song Dynasty Chinese Guan ware bottle vase, with wide short body and tall neck and slightly flared lip. Displayed on a carved hardwood stand.

Dimension(on stand): 7-7/8" H x 5" W

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LOT NOTES
Ge (Wade Giles : ko), literally means 'big-brother' ware, because legend has it that of two brothers working in Longquan, one made the typical celadon style ceramics, but the elder made ge ware, produced in his private kiln. Ming commentator, Gao Lian claims that the ge kiln took its clay from the same site as Guan ware, which is what accounts for the difficulty in distinguishing one from the other (though Gao thinks "Ge is distinctly inferior" to Guan).[37] Overall, Ge remains somewhat elusive, but basically comprises two types?one with a ?warm rice-yellow glaze and two sets of crackles, a more prominent set of darker colour interspersed with a finer set of reddish lines (called chin-ssu t'ieh-hsien or golden floss and iron threads?, which can just faintly be detected on this bowl).[38] The other Ge ware is much like Guan ware, with grayish glaze and one set of crackles. Once thought to have only been manufactured alongside Longquan celadon, per its legendary founding, Ge is now believed to have also been produced at Jingdezhen.[39]

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