A VERY RARE SMALL GEYAO BOTTLE VASESong/Ming DynastyElegantly potted with a pear-shaped body rising to a cylindrical neck, covered overall with an attractive pale grey glaze suffused with black and golden-brown crackles, thinning to a mushroom-brown colour at the glaze, stopping neatly above the foot rim applied with a dark-brown dressing, fitted box.14.8cm (5 7/8in) high (2).Provenance: 宋/明 哥釉小膽瓶Provenance:John Sparks Ltd., London, by repute (label)Yao Gu Tang Collection, Hong Kong來源：傳倫敦John Sparks Ltd.（標籤）香港耀古堂收藏Two similar Song dynasty vases in the Qing Court Collection have been published, the first of very similar size (14.2cm high) and proportions, illustrated inTheplete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (II), Hong Kong, 1996, no.35; and a smaller one (13.8cm high) with a narrower lower body, illustrated inibid., no.36.See an example sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3210, and another Ming dynasty example formerly in the Yiqingge Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 November 2014, lot 3234.瓶小口，長頸，溜肩，腹下微垂，底為圈足，圈足上端寬而下端窄，稍作斜形。此瓶造型古樸典雅，釉色瑩潤，通體施有米色釉，器身開有金絲鐵綫紋。參考兩件清宮舊藏宋代哥釉小膽瓶，一件比例大小皆與本品相似，高14.2公分，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品大系：兩宋瓷器（下）》，香港，1996年，編號35；另見一例瓶腹微收，高13.8公分，同上，編號36。香港佳士得曾售一例宋代哥釉小膽瓶，2014年5月28日，拍品3210；另見一例益清閣舊藏明代哥釉小膽瓶，同年11月26日售於香港佳士得，拍品3234。