A MASSIVE WELL-CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON CHARGER

MING DYNASTY, EARLY 15TH CENTURY

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A MASSIVE WELL-CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON CHARGER
Ming dynasty, early 15th century
Stoutly potted with shallow curved sides, the interior well carved with a large peony spray below a band of composite foliate scroll and a narrow band of flower sprigs at the rim, the exterior carved with a further band of foliate scroll between triple line borders, all under a rich olive-green glaze continuing over the foot ring onto the base where an unglazed ring has burnt reddish-brown in the firing
22in. (55.8cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare a Longquan celadon charger of similar size and with similar carved decoration in the collection of Matsunaga Memorial Hall, Japan, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. I, no. 516.

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