拍賣筆記 vol.489 蘇富比香港2016：162.5萬港元售出，高麗青瓷膽瓶，羅傑琵金頓舊藏 - Sotheby’s Hong Kong, A Korean Celadon Bottle Vase, Pilkington Collection, Koryo Dynasty, Sold for 1,625,000 HKD

汝窯同款造型的高麗青瓷，十分罕見，若為汝窯或可拍得數億港元，作為高麗青瓷僅162.5萬港元售出。近年來，高麗青瓷開始重新受到藏家的關注。另外值得注意的是，韓國當代藝術有很強的支撐，但對於自己的古代藝術竟毫無支撐，甚至1970年實施的「漢字廢止政策」。造成文化斷層，不免令人對其文化的消亡感到擔憂。（SACA觀察，2026.10.3）

高麗青瓷膽瓶

AN EXTREMELY RARE KOREAN CELADON BOTTLE VASE KORYO DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 HKD

Sold

1,625,000 HKD

elegantly potted, the elongated pear-shaped body gracefully rising from a short tapered foot to a slender waisted neck flaring gently at the rim, covered overall in a rich sea-green glaze stopping at the neatly cut footring revealing the greyish-buff ware

Provenance

Collection of Miss Dorothy C. Pape, until 1961.

Bluett & Sons Ltd, London, 1961 (£35).

Collection of Roger Pilkington (1928-69), from 1961 (£85).

Condition

There are two sections of the rim (3cm by 1cm and 1cm by 0.6cm) that have been over painted with gilt-lacquer, covering restoration. There are typical firing imperfections to the body of the vase, including a 1cm area which has been bruised, with resulting glaze flake.

Catalogue Note

Celadon-glazed vases of this sweeping form are held in important museums and private collections worldwide; see one in the National Museum of Korea, Seoul, included in the exhibition Treasures from Korea. Art Through 5000 Years, British Museum, London, cat. no. 144; another from the collection of G.St.G.M. Gompertz, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, illustrated in Yong-I Yun, Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2006, front cover and pl. 67; and a third vase illustrated in Sekai tōji zenshū [Catalogue of world’s ceramics], vol. 13, Tokyo, 1955, pl. 50. See also a smaller vase of this type, from the collection of Don Henry Salin and now in the Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Pierre Cambon, L’Art Coréen au Musée Guimet, Paris, 2001, pl. 23, no. 6; and another from the Ataka collection, now in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, illustrated in The Beauty of Asian Ceramics from the Collection of the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 2014, pl. 4.