Lot 117
117
A LONGQUAN CELADON SHALLOW DISH

Details
A LONGQUAN CELADON SHALLOW DISH
SONG DYNASTY

The slightly rounded, flared sides carved on the exterior with a band of chrysanthemum petals radiating from the slightly tapered ring foot, covered inside and out and inside the foot with an unctuous glaze of sea-green color (some glaze abrasion)
6¼in. (15.8cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

For a comparable example see Liu Liang-yu ed., Selected Pieces from the Collections of the ROC Society of Art Collectors, Taipei, 1989, Catalogue, no. 71. See, also, Zhongguo taoci daxi (Chinese Ceramics Series), Song Yuan taoci daquan (Song and Yuan Ceramics), Taipei, 1988, p. 408, for a slightly larger example