A LARGE CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON CHARGER

MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY

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A LARGE CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON CHARGER
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
The large dish is heavily potted with flaring, slightly rounded sides. The interior is carved in the centre with a trellis diaper below a band of lotus scroll in the well and scrolling tendrils on the everted rim. The dish is covered overall with a glaze of sea-green color, except for a wide unglazed ring on the base, which has burnt orange in the firing.
19 3/4 in. (50.2 cm.) diam.

Provenance

A private institution, western Japan, acquired in the 1920s

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Lot Essay

Similar Longquan celadon chargers are illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, vol. I, London, 1986, p. 324, nos. 336-38, all of which are dated to the fifteenth century.

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