YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

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A LONGQUAN CELADON CARVED DISH
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
Heavily potted, the center relief-decorated with a writhing four-clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl beneath a freely carved wave design in the cavetto and below the undecorated, everted rim, the exterior carved with a series of raised ribs circumscribing the body, covered overall with a glaze of deep green tone
14 in. (35.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Chait Galleries, New York.

Lot Essay

A dish of this type with a very similar dragon chasing a flaming pearl is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. I, no. 60. See, also, the example from the H.B. Harris Collection, also with a dragon chasing a flaming pearl beneath a wave ground, although dated to the Song dynasty, illustrated by R.L. Hobson et al., Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections, London, 1931, p. 126, fig. 224.

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