A LONGQUAN DRAGON JAR WITH TWO SMALL HANDLES, China, Yuan dynasty - Property from a Rhineland private collection, bought 7.6.1996 Lot 160 from Lempertz Cologne - The name Longquan applied to celadons does not come from a specific kiln site, but rather from the name of the market town in southern Zhejiang province to which these celadon-glazed ceramics were brought for sale and distribution. Longquan celadons were admired not only for the high quality of the raw materials used to make them, and for the variety of their forms, but most especially for the beauty of their subtle, delicately translucent, glazes. Early Longquan celadons undoubtedly owed a considerable debt to the legacy of the celadon-glazed wares from the Yue kilns, which were made in the same province. Thus in the Northern Song period the Longquan kilns produced celadon-glazed stonewares with rather thin glazes, very similar to those of Yue wares - Stand chipped