A Rare Longquan Celadon Jardinière

SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY

Details

A Rare Longquan Celadon Jardinière
Song/Yuan dynasty, 13th-14th century
Well potted with a short, splayed foot supporting a compressed rounded bowl with thin raised ridge encircling the shoulder, all below a widely flared neck with scalloped rim, covered inside and out with an attractive pale greyish-blue glaze, the center of the base with a hole for drainage
4in. (10cm.) high, stand

Provenance

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, November 1968.

Lot Essay

Two very similar jardinières were recovered from the Sinan wreck off the coast of Korea, and were included in the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Found off the Sinan Coast, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 1977, pls. 70-1. Another jardinière of this form is illustrated in Celadons from Longquan Kilns, Taipei, 1998, p. 244, no. 229, where there is also an illustration of the base, no. 229-2, showing a drainage hole similar to that on the present lot.

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