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!"! PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT
AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
A RARE AND LARGE ‘LONGQUAN’ CELADON
BARBED ‘POMEGRANATES’ DISH
MING DYNASTY, LATE 14TH / EARLY 15TH
CENTURY

sturdily potted, the shallow, widely ! ared sides rising from a tapered
foot, alternately lobed and barbed inside and out into sixteen brackets,
" nely carved to the center with a pomegranate tree bearing two
large fruits, one split to reveal the seeds within, and issuing blooming
! oral buds, all framed within a barbed hexafoil medallion and pairs of
intertwined leaves, each of the barbed panels at the cavetto enclosing
a ! oral spray, with a continuous lingzhi scroll encircling the lipped rim,
the underside of the rim similarly carved with a leafy scroll above further
! oral sprays, covered overall with an even translucent glaze of soft sea-
green tone with the exception of the wide ring on the recessed base
burnt russet in the " ring
Diameter 18½ in., 47.2 cm

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, 9th July 1974, lot 158.
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Chia.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5th November 1996, lot 636.
EXHIBITED
South-East Asian and Chinese Trade Pottery, The Oriental Ceramic
Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1979, cat. no. 14.
LITERATURE
Julian Thompson, ‘Chinese Celadons’, Arts of Asia, November-
December 1993, p. 70, " g. 15.
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࠰ಥᘽబˢ1996ϋ11˜5˚dᇜ໮636
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$ 350,000-550,000