A LARGE LONGQUAN CELADON 'PEONY' BARBED-RIM DISH

YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)

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A LARGE LONGQUAN CELADON 'PEONY' BARBED-RIM DISH
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)
The dish is carved to the interior with two leafy peony stems encircled around the lobed rim with vertically arranged fruit-laden branches including peach, pomegranate and grapes below the everted rim, the exterior is further carved with upright lingzhi sprays below foliate sprays to the underside of the rim. The dish is covered with an even celadon glaze with the exception of the unglazed ring on the underside of the base.
18 1/2 in. (47 cm.) diam.

Provenance

T. T. Tsui Collection, Hong Kong
Sold at Sotheby's London, 5 November 2008, lot 391

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Lot Essay

Two similar dishes are illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. 1, Istanbul, 1986, pls. 234 and 235.

The design on the current dish is closely related to that found on blue and white dishes of this period, such as the example in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Blue-and-White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1963, pl. 24.

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