MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

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A RARE MASSIVE CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON CHARGER
MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The shallow charger with convex center well carved with a large tree peony amidst leafy branches on a combed ground within carved bracket-lobed borders, the cavetto fluidly carved with a continuous peony scroll beneath the everted rim, which is carved with an undulating wave scroll, covered overall with a glaze of sea-green tone except for a wide unglazed ring on the base which has burnt orange in the firing
20½ in. (52.1 cm. diam.)

Provenance

Estate of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller.
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller, thence by descent to the present owner.

Lot Essay

A similar, though smaller (33 cm. diam.) dish with everted rim, also carved with a peony scroll beneath a wave border, and enclosing a spray of peony in the interior, dated to the 15th century, is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul - I - Yuan and Ming Dynasty Celadon Wares, London, 1986, p. 310, no. 272.

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