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Antique Chinese Celadon Jar with Ducks and Lotus – Song Dynasty
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Antique Chinese Celadon Jar with Ducks and Lotus – Song Dynasty

Pre 16th century
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A fine antique Chinese celadon jar, attributed to the Song Dynasty, Zhejiang province. The jar has a rounded body with four loop handles at the rim, covered in lustrous green glaze with natural craquelure.

Decorated with incised motifs of ducks, lotus blossoms and foliage, symbolising prosperity and purity. The glaze shifts from olive to deep green with natural discolouration developed over centuries, enhancing its authenticity.

Measurements: 14 cm high, 15 cm diameter, 696 g.

Condition: looks very good overall, but there is an enamel crack near one of the handles, and two body cracks. One small crack runs along the top rim near a handle and ends where the handle starts. The other is more extended, located on the side with the floral motif, running about 5 cm down to the top of the flower. Both cracks are very thin and almost invisible against the green background, but they are present. Otherwise, the pot remains in excellent condition for its age.

Please study the accompanying photographs carefully as they form an integral part of this description. If you have any questions, we will be happy to answer them. The item will be shipped with full tracking and insurance. It is important to note that shipping costs include labour, packaging and postage.

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Gillers Antiques Ltd has dated this Antique Chinese Celadon Jar to a period before the 16th Century.

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SA1108612
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A fine antique Chinese celadon jar, attributed to the Song Dynasty, Zhejiang province.
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The jar has a rounded body with four loop handles at the rim, covered in lustrous green glaze with natural craquelure.
Gillers Antiques Ltd
fig 1. A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants.
fig 1. Antique Chinese Celadon Jar with Ducks and Lotus – Song Dynasty

Decorated with incised motifs of ducks, lotus blossoms and foliage, symbolising prosperity and purity. The glaze shifts from olive to deep green with natural discolouration developed over centuries, enhancing its authenticity.

fig 2. A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants.
fig 2. Antique Chinese Celadon Jar with Ducks and Lotus – Song Dynasty

Measurements: 14 cm high, 15 cm diameter, 696 g.

Condition: looks very good overall, but there is an enamel crack near one of the handles, and two body cracks. One small crack runs along the top rim near a handle and ends where the handle starts. The other is more extended, located on the side with the floral motif, running about 5 cm down to the top of the flower. Both cracks are very thin and almost invisible against the green background, but they are present. Otherwise, the pot remains in excellent condition for its age.

fig 3. A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants.
fig 3. Antique Chinese Celadon Jar with Ducks and Lotus – Song Dynasty

Please study the accompanying photographs carefully as they form an integral part of this description. If you have any questions, we will be happy to answer them. The item will be shipped with full tracking and insurance. It is important to note that shipping costs include labour, packaging and postage.

Date of Manufacture

Gillers Antiques Ltd has dated this Antique Chinese Celadon Jar to a period before the 16th Century.

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A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants.
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Archive I A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants.

Antique Chinese Celadon Jar with Ducks and Lotus – Song Dynasty

Archive II A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants. View II
Archive III A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants. View III
Archive IV A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants. View IV
Archive V A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants. View V
Archive VI A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants. View VI
Archive VII A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants. View VII
Archive VIII A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants. View VIII
Archive IX A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants. View IX
Archive X A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants. View X
Archive XI A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants. View XI
Archive XII A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants. View XII
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A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants.
Antique Chinese Celadon Jar with Ducks and Lotus – Song Dynasty
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A rounded olive green celadon ceramic jar with four loop handles along the rim, featuring crackle glaze and incised line drawings of ducks and lotus plants.
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Celadon refers to stoneware or porcelain with a distinctive olive-to-jade-green glaze, which reached high technical and artistic refinement during Chinas Song dynasty.

These vessels were crafted from high-fired stoneware or porcelain clay bodies and coated with an iron-rich feldspathic glaze fired in a reducing kiln atmosphere.

Authentic period pieces typically feature characteristic fine glaze crackle, unglazed firing feet showing oxidised reddish-brown iron traces, and delicate hand-carved or incised decoration.

A celadon jar functions as an understated focal accent on a console table, sideboard, or within open shelving, bringing muted colour and historical texture to contemporary schemes.

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