A CARVED CELADON BARREL-SHAPED GARDEN SEAT

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A CARVED CELADON BARREL-SHAPED GARDEN SEAT
MING DYNASTY

The sides carved with four floral panels, including lotus, camellia, chrysanthemum and peony, set between narrow bands of applied florettes, with a band of clouds above the base and a band of foliate scroll below the slightly domed top incised with trellis pattern, covered with a glaze of sea-green color, some abrasion
15 3/4in. (40cm.) high

Lot Essay

A similarly decorated garden seat is in the Catalogue of Selected Objects of Chinese Art in the Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, 1959, no. 100; and another is illustrated by Anthony du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, New Jersey, 1984, p. 100 no. 2