A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON STEM CUP
A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON STEM CUP
A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON STEM CUP
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A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON STEM CUP

YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

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A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON STEM CUP
YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The cup has rounded sides rising to a lipped rim and is carved on the interior with lotus scroll and on the exterior with four large petal lappets. It is raised on a tall, ribbed stem foot and is covered overall with a lustrous sea-green glaze.
5 1/4 in. (13.2 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Galeria Internacional de Arte, Brazil, 1997.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 2533.

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Similar Longquan celadon stem cups are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in The Charles B. Hoyt Collection Memorial Exhibition, Boston, 1952, p. 57, no. 227; in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in the Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics II, Tokyo, 1990, p. 7, no. 19; and in the Seligman Collection, published by J. Ayers, The Seligman Collection of Oriental Art, Vol. II, London, 1964, pl. LXI, no. D187, described on pp. 90-91. See, also, examples in the British Museum, London, of similar form without the lotus scroll on the exterior, illustrated by R. Harrison-Hall in Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pp. 463-464, nos. 16:2-16:5.

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