A Very Large and Rare Carved Celadon 'Grapes' Dish

EARLY 15TH CENTURY

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A Very Large and Rare Carved Celadon 'Grapes' Dish
Early 15th Century
Heavily potted, the interior carved with a fruiting grape vine surrounded by lingzhi fungus and bamboo below a frieze of lotus sprays around the rim, the exterior of the shallow rounded sides with sprays of fruiting loquat, cherry, pomegranate and peach, all under a rich celadon glaze
20in. (51.5cm.) diam., box

Exhibited

Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, In Pursuit of Antiquities, Thirty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition of the Min Chiu Society, 22 December 1995 - 18 February 1996, no. 105

Lot Essay

Similar examples are very rare. R. Krahl illustrates one in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, London, 1986, vol. I, p. 231, col. pl. no. 241. The same dish is also illustrated in Ceramic Art of the World, Shogakukan Series, vol. 4, 1976, col. pl. 130.
The decoration is also found on early Ming blue and white dishes. See Krahl, ibid., p. 514, nos. 605 and 606.

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