A SMALL LONGQUAN CELADON BOWL

LATE SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY

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A SMALL LONGQUAN CELADON BOWL
LATE SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY
The sides rounding upwards from the small tapered foot to a softly grooved band below the slightly everted rim, with a small boss in the center of the interior, covered overall with a widely crackled glaze of soft sea-green tone except for the foot rim where the pale grey ware is exposed.
4 in. (10.2 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

The Lord Cunliffe Collection, Bluett & Sons, London, 10 June 1971.

Exhibited

Huntsville Museum of Art, Art of China and Japan, 1977, no. 48, p. 27.
New Orleans Museum of Art, Heaven and Earth Seen Within, 2000, no. 59.

Lot Essay

A virtually identical Longquan bowl, recovered from the Sinan wreck off the coast of Korea, was included in the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Found off the Sinan Coast, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 1977, col. pl. 8. Another similar bowl was recovered from a tomb dated to 1274 in the city of Quzhou, Zhejiang province. See 'Zhejiang Qizhoushi nan Song mu chutu qiwu', Kaogu, 1983:11, pl. 5:2. Other examples include the bowl in the Percival David Foundation, included in Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares, p. 40, no. 252, and the bowl from the trust of 1983, George deBatz, sold in these rooms, 30 November 1983, lot 331.

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