YUAN–EARLY MING DYNASTY, LATE 14TH–EARLY 15TH CENTURY

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A LONGQUAN CELADON TRIPOD BULB BOWL
YUAN–EARLY MING DYNASTY, LATE 14TH–EARLY 15TH CENTURY
The compressed body is raised on three curved mask supports and is carved around the exterior with the Eight Trigrams (bagua) between bands of bosses. The whole is covered in a glaze of rich sea-green color ending unevenly on the interior around a molded floral medallion in the unglazed center.
12 1/4 in. (31 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Collection of Captain S. N. Ferris Luboshez (1896-1984), Washington D.C.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 2907.

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Lot Essay

A Longquan celadon bulb bowl of the same design from the Eumorfopoulos Collection, now in the British Museum, was included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, London 1935-36, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 1325, and also illustrated by R. L. Hobson in the Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue, Vol. II, pl. XXXVI, no. B136. See, also, another example of this type with similar peony sprig impressed in the unglazed center and with the Eight Trigrams carved around the sides, also in the British Museum, illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics, London, 2001, p. 495, no. 16:87, where it is dated Yuan to early Ming dynasty, c. 1300-1400.

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