MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY

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A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON CARVED DISH
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
Well carved in the center with a fruiting lychee branch, the stippled round fruit clusters amid long pointed leaves, encircled in the well with a continuous lotus scroll, each spiky bloom alternating with large lotus leaves, below a foliate meander encircling the rim, the exterior with a composite floral scroll, including lotus, camellia and gardenia, between incised line borders, covered overall with a rich olive-green glaze
13¼ in. (33.6 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 14 November 1989, lot 11.

Lot Essay

A dish with barbed well and rim with a similar lychee branch in the center is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. 1, London, 1986, p. 303, no. 243. The underglaze blue prototype is illustrated by A. Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1906, pl. 41.
See, also, a fifteenth century blue and white dish with a loquat branch in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, illustrated in The 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Tokyo, 1981, p. 511, no. 789.
The elaborate lotus scroll, seldom found in celadon wares, also appears in early fifteenth century blue and white porcelain, an example of which is illustrated by R. Krahl, op. cit., vol. II, no. 598.

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