MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)

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A LARGE CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON VASE
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
The vase has an oviform body and trumpet neck and is carved on the shoulder with a wide band of peony scroll bearing two large blossoms above a band of foliate scroll and upright petals on the lower body, the neck with a band of upright leaves below ribbed bands. The vase is covered with a thick glaze of sea-green tone.
24 in. (61 cm.) high

Provenance

Warren E. Cox Associates, Inc., New York, 9 February 1972.

Lot Essay

A similar Longquan vase is illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 14, no. 231. Compare, also, the well-known Longquan celadon vase in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art now on long term loan to the British Museum, London, with an incised inscription at the base of its slender, tapering neck dating the vase to 1454. Another example is illustrated by R. Krahl, ‘Longquan Celadon of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul’, T.O.C.S., 1984-1985, vol. 49, p. 53. no. 23. See, also, a similar vase but carved with chrysanthemum scroll, sold at Christie’s New York, 26 March 2003, lot 240.

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