AN UNUSUAL LONGQUAN CELADON CARVED BOTTLE, MEIPING

YUAN/EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL LONGQUAN CELADON CARVED BOTTLE, MEIPING
YUAN/EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
Heavily potted, the high-shouldered body tapering to a spreading foot, the sides freely carved with a broad band of lotus scroll between a band of upright petals below and a band of clouds above, with a band of overlapping petals below a band of triangular leaf tips encircling the base of the small constricted neck, covered overall with a glaze of sea-green tone except for the unglazed foot rim burnt orange in the firing
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Frank Caro, New York, September 1962.

Exhibited

Huntsville Museum of Art, Art of China and Japan, 1977, no. 69.
New Orleans Museum of Art, Heaven and Earth Seen Within, 2000, no. 63.

Lot Essay

Compare the very similar meiping of the same period illustrated by Zhao Zigang, Qinqci Qinbaicai Zhenpin (The Treasury of Green and Qingbai Wares), Guangzhou, 1997, col. pl. 149. An uncarved Longquan meiping dated to the Yuan dynasty of nearly identical shape, including the collared shoulder and beveled foot, is illustrated in An Anthology of Chinese Art, Min Chiu Society Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Hong Kong, 1985, no. 146. A meiping with similar carved decoration, formerly in the Hirota Collection and now in the Tokyo National Museum, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1982, no. 107. A larger Longquan celadon meiping with cylidrical neck, but carved with a very similar design, was sold in these rooms, 24 March 2004, lot 173.

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