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THE ROGER BELANICH COLLECTION OF LONGQUAN CELADON CERAMICS

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A FINE AND MASSIVE LONGQUAN CELADON CHARGER

YONGLE PERIOD (1402-1425)

The charger is heavily potted with gently curved sides rising from a tapered foot
ring to a rounded rim, covered overall with an even translucent glaze of sea-green
tone except for the wide ring on the recessed base.
23 ¿ in. (58.7 cm.) diam.

HK$1,500,000-2,500,000 US$200,000-320,000

PROVENANCE

Tony Carter, London, 2000

EXHIBITED

The Seattle Art Museum, 2009-2017

The present charger belongs to a small group of massive Longquan dishes probably
made by the imperial kilns at Chuzhou, Zhejiang province, which were left undeocrated
to highlight the luminosity of the soft even glaze. Imperial patronage of this type of
chargers can be supported by a similar reconstructed example found at the imperial
kilns at Chuzhou, Longquan, illustrated in Faxian-Da Ming Chuzhou Longquan guanyao,
Hangzhou, 2005, p. 254, pl. 6. Other similar chargers of smaller size include one (57.7
cm.) in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Green-Longquan Celadon of
the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2009, pp. 90-1, pl. 41; another (56.3 cm.) sold at Christie’s
Hong Kong, 29 May 2007, lot 1478; a third (56 cm.) included in the Capital Museum
exhibition Wenwen yuse zhaociou, and illustrated in the Catalogue, Beijing, 2012, pl.
112; and a fourth (54.5 cm.) illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976,
p. 174, no. 515, and later sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 7 April 2015, lot 3632.

Compare also to larger examples of this type, such as the one (68.5 cm.) in the
Idemitsu Museum of Arts, illustrated in Selected Masterpieces from the Idemitsu
Collection, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1986-1891, no. 135; another (68 cm.) sold at Christie’s New
York, 26 March 2010, lot 1346; a third (68 cm.) sold at Sotheby’s New York, 8 May 1981,
lot 254; a fourth (64.9 cm.) sold at Christie’s New York, 17 September 2010, lot 1313; a
fifth (63.8 cm.) sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 September 1989, lot 555; and a sixth
(63.5 cm.) sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 October 2016, lot 3639.

明永樂 龍泉青釉大盤

來源
Tony Carter，倫敦，2000 年

展覽
2009-2017 年間借展於西雅圖藝術博物館

此類大盤為處州龍泉官窯的作品。除了底部的環形墊燒區以外，全器光素滿釉。看似樸
實無華，卻更能突顯出其青碧光潤的釉色。

浙江省龍泉官窯遺址曾發掘一件同類的龍泉大盤，見《發現．大明處州龍泉官窯》，杭
州，2005 年，頁 254，圖版 6。其他尺寸略小的例子可參考台北故宮博物院所藏一件（57.7
公分），著錄於《碧綠 – 明代龍泉窯青瓷》，台北，2009 年，頁 90-91，圖版 41；香
港佳士得 2007 年 5 月 29 日拍賣一件，拍品 1478 號（56.3 公分）；首都博物館曾展覽
一例 （56 公分），見展覽圖錄《溫溫玉色照瓷甌》，北京，2012 年，圖版 112；及一
例（54.5 公分）著錄於《龍泉集芳．創業七十周年》，第 1 冊，東京，1976 年，圖版
515，後於香港蘇富比 2015 年 4 月 7 日拍賣，拍品 3632 號。

另可比較同類但尺寸較大的幾例，包括日本出光美術館一例（68.5 公分），載於
《館藏名品選》，第 3 集，東京，圖版 135，及拍賣過的五例：紐約佳士得 2010 年 3 月
26 日，拍品 1346 號（68 公分）；紐約蘇富比 1981 年 5 月 8 日，拍品 254 號（68 公分）；
紐約佳士得 2010 年 9 月 17 日，拍品 1313 號（64.9 公分）；香港佳士得 1989 年 9 月 26 日，
拍品 555 號（63.5 公分）；香港蘇富比 2016 年 10 月 5 日，拍品 3639 號（63.5 公分）。

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