A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON ‘PEONY’ JAR

YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

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A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON ‘PEONY’ JAR
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
The jar of globular shape is heavily potted, the high rounded shoulders rising from a recessed base to a short wide neck. It is freely carved in relief on the exterior with three peony blooms borne on meandering leafy stems above a band of upright petal lappets encircling the tapering foot. With the exception for the mouth rim and the inside of the base, it is covered all over in an attractive pale-olive glaze, with a neatly trimmed foot ring burned orange in the firing.
10 1/2 in. (26.5 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

The Ryuzaburo Umehara Collection, Japan

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Lot Essay

Ryuzaburo Umehara (1888-1986), a prominent Yga-style Japanese painter of the Meiji period. He was born in Kyoto and first studied at the Syogoin Western-style Painting’s Institute in 1903. In 1906, he studied under Asai Chu with Yasui Sotaro at the Kansai Art School. From 1908 to 1913, he travelled to France, where he visited Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1909 and studied under him.

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