MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY

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A LONGQUAN CELADON CARVED CHARGER
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
The large dish is heavily potted with flaring, rounded sides. The interior is carved in the center with a trellis diaper below a band of peony scroll in the well and scrolling tendrils on the everted rim. The large dish is covered overall with a glaze of sea-green color, except for a wide unglazed ring on the base, which has burnt orange in the firing.
17¾ in. (45.1 cm.) diam.

Provenance

James P. Speer II collection, acquired in 1946-1947, and thence by descent within the family

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Lot Essay

Similar Longquan celadon chargers are illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, vol. I, London, 1986, p. 324, nos. 336-38, all of which are dated to the fifteenth century.

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