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PROPERTY FROM A CALIFORNIA COLLECTOR
2213
A LONGQUAN CELADON SHALLOW BOWL
Yuan/Ming dynasty
Thickly molded with a shallow well, canted walls and twisted reed
bands on the exterior raised in relief to imitate a wood barrel, the
crazed olive-green glaze covering the interior, exterior walls and the
foot pad, the shallowly recessed base burnt cinnamon brown except
for a circular patch of glaze at the center.
5 3/8in (13.5cm) diameter
$1,500 - 2,500
2214
A LONGQUAN CELADON JAR, GUAN
14th century
Of compressed ovoid form with a thick rim to the short neck, the
exterior walls carved with a band of alternating lotus flowers and
leaves and another of lotus petals rising above the thick foot pad,
the base closed with a separately shaped concave plug before the
lustrous sea-green glaze was applied on all surfaces except the
cinnamon-burnt lip and foot pad.
11in (28cm) diameter
8 1/4in (21cm) high
$4,000 - 6,000
For a jar of similar base construction, form and carved decoration
with the original cover preserved, see the example in the Philadelphia
Museum of Art illustrated in Margaret Medley, Yuan Porcelain &
Stoneware, 1974, pl. 70a-c (22.9cm high).
PROPERTY FROM THE MEEKER COLLECTION
2215
A FINE AND RARE LONGQUAN CELADON VASE WITH
MOLDED DECORATION
Yuan dynasty
Thickly formed and molded in raised relief with horizontal string bands 2218
beneath the flared rim and opposing flowering branches rising from
further string bands at the base of the tall neck, a graceful flower
and leaf scroll band and raised lotus petals surrounding the body of
inverted pear form resting on a wedged foot with shallowly recessed
base, the unctuous sea-green glaze covering all surfaces except the
foot pad and a few spots of cinnamon burn where the glaze layer
opened during firing.
14 1/8in (36cm) high
$10,000 - 15,000
Provenance
purchased, 1953, in Tokyo, Japan
For a Longquan vase of slightly larger size but similar decoration,
see He Li, Chinese Ceramics: a New Comprehensive Survey from
the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1996, no. 362, pp.176-
177 and p. 203, (17 5/8in, 44.8cm high, as 14th-15th century). For
an example of smaller size but similar shape and decoration (25cm
high), excavated from a Yuan period shipwreck off the Korean coast
of Todokdo, Sinan-gun, see Shin’an kaitei hikiage bunbutsu (The
Sunken Treasures off the Sinan Coast,), 1983, cat. no. 5, p. 58.
Incomplete examples can be seen in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics
in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul , 1986: vol. I, cat. nos. 205
(TKS15/213 and TKS15/9755), pp .288-289 (as early/mid-14th
century). See also a complete example of large size from the City Art
Museum of St. Louis, with four flowering branches on the neck and
similar decoration on the body, included in Sherman Lee and Wai-kam
Ho, Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368),
1968, cat. no. 63 (28 1/2in, 72.4cm high).
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2216
A LONGQUAN CELADON DEEP DISH WITH INCISED AND
STAMPED DECORATION
Ming dynasty
Its wide rim flange incised with a dissolved leafy spray, the curving walls
with a classic lotus flower and leaf scroll and the floor with an ogival
reserve framing a stamped flower spray, the reverse finished without
decoration above the wide foot ring and an olive-green glaze applied
everywhere except the cinnamon-burnt firing ring on the recessed base.
13 3/8in (34cm) diameter
$1,500 - 2,500
Provenance
purchased in Tokyo, January, 1953
For a dish of similar size and incised program of decoration but
stamped with two fish instead of the floral spray, see Regina Krahl,
Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul , 1986: vol.
I, no. 375 (TKS15/752), p. 334, as 15th century (35cm diameter).
PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER
2217
A LONGQUAN CELADON TRIPOD CENSER
Ming dynasty
Of compressed globular form with a dissolved peony flower and leaf
spray pattern summarily incised into the curving exterior walls visible
beneath a thin olive-green glaze also covering portions of the interior walls
and the thee short legs protruding from the base, the unglazed surfaces
burnt a dark cinnamon brown (extensive wear, soiling from use).
11 1/2in (29cm) diameter
$1,000 - 1,500
MONOCHROMES
PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
AN IRON BROWN GLAZED LONG NECKED VASE
Chenghua mark, 19th century
Potted with a flared rim to the long neck and a compressed globular
body raised on a flaring foot, the translucent chocolate brown glaze
displaying tiny metal filings on all surfaces except the foot pad, the
recessed base impressed with a six-character mark in seal script.
12 1/4in (30.5cm) high
$1,500 - 2,500
2219
A DEHUA FIGURE OF A MOUNTED GUAN YU
Qing dynasty
Attired in elaborate martial garb holding his left hand at chest level while
his head as well as that of his horse are turned to one side to face the
viewer, the elaborately caparisoned mount standing on all four feet atop
a slightly convex plinth molded in scrolling cloud patterns (firing cracks).
10 1/4in (26cm) high
$5,000 - 7,000
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE CROSTHWAITE FAMILY
2220
AN ASSEMBLED GROUP OF WHITE PORCELAINS
Republic period and later
Including four Dehua wares: a seated Guanyin tenoned to a separately
potted lotus pedestal, two figures possibly depicting Lin Daiyu and
Jia Baoyu, and a small footed cylindrical incense burner; as well as
a water coupe and a two-section toothpick holder, both potted in
unglazed biscuit and adorned in carved flowering prunus branches. [6]
12 3/8in (31.5cm) height of first and tallest inclusive of stand
$1,000 - 1,500