A VERY FINE MASSIVE LONGQUAN CELADON DISH

LATE 14TH/EARLY 15TH CENTURY

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A VERY FINE MASSIVE LONGQUAN CELADON DISH
late 14th/early 15th century
Heavily potted with a slightly convex base and gently curved sides, the body incised under the glaze with a large blooming peony spray at the centre, below a continuous fruit-and-flower scroll in the well and a narrow band of lingzhi-scroll at the rim, the exterior similarly incised with a scrolling lotus
25 in. (63.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

John Schlesinger, Geneva

Literature

Koyama Fujio, Seiji, Toji Taikei, vol.36, 1978, p.122, fig.58

Lot Essay

An almost identical dish in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl.597, together with a slightly larger dish decorated with a peach branch in the centre and flowering plants round the well as colour pl.153, and an undecorated dish of similar size as colour pl.156. Another large dish decorated with peach is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Longquan Qingci, 1966, pl.58; and another is in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, 1986, vol.I, no.242.

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