YUAN DYNASTY

Details

A Longquan carved celadon dish
Yuan dynasty
With rounded sides rising to a flat, everted rim, the interior decorated in relief with a four-claw, scaly dragon leaping in pursuit of a flaming pearl below a band of foliate scroll carved in the well, the exterior carved with a frieze of upright petals, all under a glaze of sea-green tone thinning on the raised areas, the base similarly glazed, base crack and wear
36.2 cm. diam.

Provenance

Major General Baron H. van Hemert tot Dingshof
and thence by descent

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Lot Essay

Compare a similar dish illustrated by the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Chinese Celadons and Other Related Wares in Southeast Asia, Singapore, 1979, cover and pls. 128 and 129. Also see Sougen no bijutsu, The Art of Song and Yuan Dynasties, Osaka Municipal Art Museum, 1978, p. 20, pl. 62.

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