14TH/EARLY 15TH CENTURY

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A RARE MASSIVE LONGQUAN CELADON CHARGER
14TH/EARLY 15TH CENTURY
Very heavily potted with shallow rounded sides, covered all over with a glaze of olive-green tone except for two unglazed circles on the base burnt orange in the firing
26¾ in. (68 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Tai Sing Co., Hong Kong, 1991.
Cargill & Donna MacMillan Collection.

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Lot Essay

Longquan celadon chargers of this large undecorated type are rare. One of comparable size (68.5 cm.) in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts is illustrated in Selected Masterpieces from the Idemitsu Collection, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1986-91, no. 135. One of somewhat smaller size (54.5 cm.) is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 174, no. 515; and another (56.3 cm.) was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 29 May 2007, lot 1478.

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