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This graceful 14th-century Chinese Yen-Ten (Phoenix Tail) Longquan Celadon Vase from the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368) is among the many ancient ceramic wares in Green Glazed Ceramics from China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam, at Zetterquist Galleries. Typically crafted in celadon, they date from the Southern Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty and are frequently found in Japan and Southeast Asia.

Celadon Bowl with Carved Lotus Petals. Goryeo Dynasty, 12th c. AD, Korea. Diameter: 17.5cm. A shallow stoneware bowl, sitting on a short foot, and covered with a finely crackled translucent green glaze. The interior is decorated with an incised circles and the exterior with deeply carved, overlapping lotus petals.. The foot interior has three spur marks and a patch of kiln grit.

Small Goryeo Celadon Inlaid Foliate Plate, Goryeo Dynasty, 12th c. AD, Korea. Diameter: 10 cm. A small foliate-form plate with impressed and inlaid floral pattern in black and white detailing . The cavetto is formed of fluted petals, each of which is decorated with a floral sprig. The flattened center has a larger floral depiction encased in double concentric circles. The entire piece is covered in a translucent minty blue-green glaze of ideal color. The flattened foot has three white spur marks.

Large Goryeo Celadon Inlaid Tile. Goryeo Dynasty, 12th - 13th c. AD, Korea, 23.3cm H. x 30.5cm W. A thin stoneware rectangular tile with white slip, iron oxide black, and copper red details. There are three rectangular decorative borders. The outermost is thin, with scrolling leaves in white slip decoration, surrounding a thicker border of scrolling vines with leaves in black and flowers in white slip randomly tinged with copper red.

An Oribe Bowl of Indented Form. Momoyama - Early Edo Period, late 16th - early 17th c., Japan, 22.5cm L. x 19.7cm D. x 8.5cm H. A shallow rectangular stoneware bowl with parenthesis-formed indents centered on the long sides. The walls are stepped in creating a shelf just above the recessed flat bottom.

Northern Celadon Carved Plate. Song Dynasty, 960 - 1127 A.D.,China. Diameter: 18.5cm. A stoneware plate with molded interior band of dense foliage surrounding a center with peonies. Covered with a dark green, finely crackled glaze. The underside is plain with the exception of a single line incised about 1 cm below the rim. The straight foot is partially unglazed, revealing a gray clay body fired to a buff color. There is a circle of glaze centered in the underfoot that has fired to a russet color.

Ribbed Longquan Celadon Censer. Early Ming Dynasty, 15th c. AD, China. Height: 10.5cm. A ribbed censer that tapers down from its flattened mouth rim to a slightly narrower base, all sitting on three ruyi shaped feet. The sides are decorated with four bands of deeply carved horizontal ribs.

Small Yue Bird Shaped Ewer. Jin Dynasty (368-581 A.D.), China. Length 14.8 cm. A small round ewer in the form of a bird, with chicken- headed spout and opposed projecting tail. The shoulders are surmounted by two loop handles and decorated with incised sprays within incised bands.

Celadon Lidded Bowl. Tran Dynasty 1225 - 1400 AD,Vietnam. Diameter: 17.5 cm. A finely potted stoneware bowl with domed lid with crenelated edge surmounted by a two-tiered knob. The bowl has a narrow base that swells to a wide shoulder and inverted mouth rim. The top of the lid and the bottom half of the bowl are decorated with incised petals. Both interior of the bowl and overall exterior are covered in a finely crackled olive green glaze, which ends at the shallow foot rim, exposing a pale buff colored clay body. The underside of the lid is unglazed except for a wiped glaze under the domed section.

Vietnamese Deep Celadon Bowl with Carved Floral Design. Tran Dynasty, 14th c., Vietnam. A deep beaker-form stoneware bowl with carved elongated lotus petals around the bottom half of the exterior and a band of scrolling leaves beneath a keyfret pattern just below the mouth. The interior is unadorned but has four pronounced spur marks on the bottom, around which a thick glassy green glaze has pooled. The rest of the bowl is covered in translucent mossy green celadon glaze.