YUAN/MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

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A RARE MASSIVE LONGQUAN CELADON CHARGER
YUAN/MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
Very heavily potted with shallow rounded sides, covered all over with a glaze of olive-green tone, except for a single unglazed circle on the base burnt orange in the firing
25 9/16 in. (64.9 cm.) diam., stand

Provenance

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

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Lot Essay

Longquan celadon chargers of this large undecorated type are rare. One of comparable size (68.5 cm.) in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts is illustrated in Selected Masterpieces from the Idemitsu Collection, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1986-91, no. 135. One of smaller size (54.5 cm.) is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 174, no. 515; and another (68 cm.) was sold in these rooms, 26 March 2010, lot 1346.

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