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

Longquan celadon jars of this form were first made during the Song dynasty and continued to be made into the early Ming dynasty. A smaller jar and cover (23.8 cm.) of Song dynasty date unearthed at Suining City, Sichuan province and now in the Suining City Museum was included in the exhibition, Urban Life in the Song, Yuan & Ming, Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1994, p. 72-73. For an example of early to mid-14th century date, see R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. I, London, 1986, p. 293, fig. 215. A fine ribbed example of comparable size was sold at Christie's New York, The Hardy Collection of Early Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art from the Sze Yuan Tang, 21 September 1995, lot 121.