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A FINE LONGQUAN CELADON ‘LOTUS’ BOWL
MING DYNASTY, EARLY 15TH CENTURY
The bowl has deep rounded sides rising to a flaring rim from a short foot ring, and it is
finely carved to the interior with a lotus spray roundel encircled by a wide band of lotus
borne on a dense floral scroll. The exterior is similarly carved above a key-fret band to the
short foot, all covered with an even olive-green celadon glaze, with the exception of an
unglazed circle on the base.
7 ¡ in. (18.7 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
HK$300,000-500,000 US$39,000-65,000
The carved decoration on the bowl relates closely to designs found on contemporaneous blue
and white bowls of the Xuande reign decorated with dense floral scrolls to the exterior and
interior around a floral medallion.
Compare the present example with a carved Longquan bowl from the National Palace Museum,
Taipei, illustrated in Green-Longquan Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2009, p. 64, no. 25.
明初 龍泉青釉纏枝蓮紋盌
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