This South Song Longquan celadon vase is about 22 cm high, with a ring of raised around the mouth which imitates the early age bronze ware, and its belly is like a water drop shape while touching the ground, its glaze is green (also known as powder green), the foot rim has two holes, used to wear decorative belts to fix the flowers inserted in the bottle as a flower utensils. This shaped porcelain is generally used for royal nobles’ home decoration, its grade is very high.
Drinking tea and admiring flowers were quite popular among the royal and scholar-officials in the South Song period (1127-1279),  this specially supplied celadon was very exquisite in craftsmanship, elegant in shape, and beautiful in glaze, and was a masterpiece of ancient Chinese ceramic art. Most of the existing good-condition and exquisite South Song Longquan porcelain are collected in museums or private collectors, normally are very rare and precious cultural relics.