MING DYNASTY, EARLY 15TH CENTURY

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A large Longquan celadon dish
Ming dynasty, early 15th Century
Heavily potted, the interior carved with a fruiting crab apple tree surrounded by various flower sprigs in the petal-carved well, with detached foliate sprays on the everted rim below the raised, bracket-lobed edge, the exterior also carved with vertically arranged flower sprigs below a band of foliate scroll on the underside of the rim, all under a glaze of rich tone, an unglazed ring on the base burnt red in the firing, rim restoration
48.5 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

There are several similar celadon bracket-lobed dishes in the collection of the Topkapi Saray, illustrated by J. Ayers and R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, vol. I, London, 1986, pp. 228, 300-301, nos. 233-39, which are given a date of "c. 1400", and no. 243, which is given a date of "early 15th century".

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