Live Auction 2726Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
A LONGQUAN CELADON IMPRESSED BOWL
Lot 1286PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION 

A LONGQUAN CELADON IMPRESSED BOWL

MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY

Closed20 September 2013

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A LONGQUAN CELADON IMPRESSED BOWL
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
The heavily potted bowl has deep rounded sides raised on a small straight foot, and is impressed in the center of the interior with an indistinct circular medallion and around the sides with a continuous frieze of a boy amidst lotus scroll below a key-fret border repeated on the exterior above a broad band of narrow upright petals, all under a glaze of olive-green color that continues over the foot.
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) diam.

Specialist note

Jessica Harrison-Hall in Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, illustrates two Longquan celadon bowls of this type with impressed decoration, pp. 482-83, nos. 16:52 and 16:53, and cites other related bowls with different impressed figural decoration in various museums.