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Two Chinese Longquan Celadon Cong Vases.
Lot: 439
The first, modeled after an archaic jade cong, with eight raised horizontal bands within a raised rectangular frame on each corner, all between a cylindrical foot and neck, applied with a crackle-suffused sea-green glaze except for the foot ring burnt orange in the firing the second, the body of square section carved and molded with the Bagua and yin-yang symbols, all on a spreading foot rising to a tapering neck with everted mouth, covered with a lustrous celadon glaze draining to pale bluish-white at the raised edges and pooling to sea-green at the recessed areas.
Tallest: 12 inches (20.4 cm).