A LONGQUAN CELADON DISH
A LONGQUAN CELADON DISH

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

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A LONGQUAN CELADON DISH
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
With shallow rounded sides rising to a flat everted rim with raised outer edge, covered allover with a thick glaze of even sea-green tone, the unglazed foot rim burnt orange in the firing
8 7/16 in. (21.5 cm.) diam.,
Provenance
Maria Worthington, Vienna, Virginia, July 1968.
Exhibited
Huntsville Museum of Art, Art of China and Japan, 1977, no. 47, p. 20.
New Orleans Museum of Art, Heaven and Earth Seen Within, 2000, no. 51.

Lot Essay

The simple and elegant shape of this handsome dish provided an excellent canvas for the even, thick blue-green glaze, which was achieved by applying the glaze in several layers.
Dishes of similar shape and proportions have been excavated from the Longquan kiln site at Dayao. See Longquan Qingci Yanjiu, Beijing, 1989, p. 56, fig. 10:1. Other similar examples include one formerly in the Hirota Collection and now in the Tokyo National Museum, included in Illustrated Catalogue of the Tokyo National Museum, Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1, p. 130, no. 522; the Percival David Foundation, included in Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, rev. ed., London, 1997, no. 213.

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