YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

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A RARE CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON HEXAGONAL VASE, MEIPING
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
Each facet with a central panel carved in high relief with fruiting or flowering plants including grapes, peony, pomegranate, plantain, chrysanthemum and lotus, above a band of stiff lappets and below panels containing a lotus blossom and one of the Buddhist emblems, covered inside and out with a celadon glaze of deep sea-green color, the unglazed footring burnt orange in the firing
14¼ in. (36.2 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the vase from the Frederick M. Mayer Collection, sold in our London rooms, 24-25 June 1974, lot 75, and now in the Matsuoka Museum of Art, illustrated in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, 1984, no. 116; and the example from the Russell Collection molded with slightly broader panels, included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-6, no. 1361. A third example is in The Kanagawa Prefectural Museum, Japan, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 173, no. 510; and another was included in the The 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 1981, no. 771.

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