EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

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A LARGE LONGQUAN CELADON BARBED-RIM DISH
EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The heavily potted body well carved with petals in the well and on the exterior below the petal-barbed rim, the center plain, covered all over with an unctuous glaze of even, sea-green color continuing over the foot rim where an unglazed ring on the base has fired to an orange color, the glaze pooling attractively in the molded areas to highlight the decoration
18½ in. (47 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Exhibited

Hakutsuru Museum.

Lot Essay

Compare the closely related barbed Longquan celadon dish of similar size illustrated by J. Ayers and R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. I, London, 1986, no. 245. Other larger examples are illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 11, Tokyo, 1961, fig. 254; Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, p. 175, no. 519; and in the collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, illustrated by M. Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades, London, 1963, pl. 103a. A similar example, formerly from The Edward T. Chow Collection, was sold at Sotheby's, London, 16 December 1980, lot 328; and another in our Hong Kong rooms, 29-30 April 2001, lot 650.

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