
Rachel Hyman
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Provenance: collected in the early 20th century in China, and thence by descent
Compare the present lot with a Longquan celadon-glazed reliquary, dated Southern Song Dynasty, but without any figures, sold as part of the Falk Collection at Christie's, 16 October 2001, lot 115. Also see another version, but without steps or balustrade, also dated to the 12th-13th century, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and illustrated in M. Traeger, Song Ceramics, London, 1982, p. 181, no. 252.