MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY

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A RARE LARGE LONGQUAN CELADON CARVED BOWL
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
Heavily potted with deep sides carved as eight petals rising to a barbed rim, the interior molded in the center with a four-petalled flowerhead enclosing the characters, jinyu mantang ('May you have a prosperous household'), within a combed quatrefoil reserve below various fruit or flower sprays in the well and a cloud border at the rim, the petals on the exterior enclosing lotus sprays below a border of overlapping petal tips at the rim, all under a glaze of sea-green tone which also covers the foot and the center of the base within a wide unglazed ring burnt orange in the firing
12 5/8 in. (32.2 cm.) diam.

Provenance

J.T. Tai & Co., New York.

Lot Essay

Compare the bowl of similar shape and size carved with similar fruit and flower sprays on the interior and lotus sprays on the exterior illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. I, London, 1986, p. 360, no. 493. See, also, the bowl of this form with the same unusual border of overlapping petal tips at the exterior rim in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1996, p. 175, no. 357. The style of carving on these bowls is called zhuigong ('raised with an awl') in the Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Government Exhibits for the International Exhibition of Chinese Art London, vol. II, Shanghai, 1948, where another bowl of this type is illustrated, p. 100 (top).

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