A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON BOWL

YUAN DYNASTY WARES

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A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON BOWL
YUAN DYNASTY

The deep, thickly potted sides divided into eight petals rising to a bracketed rim, each petal freely carved on the exterior with a foliate spray within a petal-shaped reserve, and on the interior with scale pattern above a peony spray impressed in the center, all below borders of cross-hatching at the rim, covered inside and out with a glaze of sea-green color which continues over the thick foot rim, an unglazed circle on the base burnt red in the firing, some glaze abrasion
8 5/8in. (21.8cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Compare the larger but similar bowl in the Avery Brundage Collection, incised on the exterior panels with scrolling clouds, illustrated by Lee and Ho, Chinese Art under the Mongols, The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963, no. 70