YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

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A LONGQUAN CELADON 'DRAGON' DISH
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
The gently rounded sides flaring outward to a flat everted rim, moulded in the centre with a writhing scaly dragon, encircled by a freely carved foliage scroll around the cavetto, the exterior carved and moulded with lobed lotus petals radiating from the footring, covered overall with an olive-green glaze except for the footrim showing the biscuit burnt orange in the firing
13 1/4 in. (33.5 cm.) diam., box

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Lot Essay

A dish of this type with a very similar dragon applied to the centre is illustrated in Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. I, p. 256, no. 62. Another almost identical dragon chasing a 'flaming pearl' from the British Museum is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections, vol. 5, Tokyo, 1981, no. 132.

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