LATE SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY

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A SMALL LONGQUAN CELADON BOWL
LATE SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY
The sides rounding upwards from the small tapered foot to a softly finger-grooved band below the slightly everted rim, with a small convex center to the interior which corresponds to another on the base, covered overall with a glaze of soft blue-green tone except for the edge of the foot rim where the pale grey ware has burnt orange in the firing
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) diam., box, stand

Provenance

Mathias Komor, New York, 25 November 1952.
The George deBatz Collection; Christie's, New York, 30 November 1983, lot 331.

Exhibited

Boston, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Chinese Ceramics and European Drawings from the Georges deBatz Collection, 1953, no. 75.

Lot Essay

A virtually identical Longquan bowl, recovered from the Sinan wreck off the coast of Korea, was included in the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Found off the Sinan Coast, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 1977, col. pl. 8. Another similar bowl recovered from a tomb dated to 1274 in the city of Qizhou, Zhejiang province is illustrated in 'Zhejiang Qizhoushi nan Song mu chutu qiwu', Kaogu, 1983:11, pl. 5:2. Other examples include a bowl in the Percival David Foundation included in the Illustrated Catalolgue of Celadon Wares, London, 1977, pl. V, no. 45, and the bowl from the collection of Dr. Robert Barron, sold in these rooms, 30 March 2005, lot 316.

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