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!"# PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT
AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
A FINELY CARVED ‘LONGQUAN’
CELADON ‘PEONY’ BOTTLE VASE,
YUHUCHUNPING
MING DYNASTY, HONGWU PERIOD

the elegantly proportioned pear-shaped body rising from a slightly
splayed foot, sweeping up to a tall waisted neck rising to an everted
lipped rim, the body boldly carved with four large peony sprays borne on
an undulated stem also issuing furled leaves, above a broad lotus lappet
band enclosing ruyi heads, with a keyfret border at the foot, the shoulder
encircled by a pendent ruyi head border, with classic scroll, keyfret and
upright lappet bands at the neck, applied overall with an even olive-
green glaze save for the foot ring
Height 13 in., 32.9 cm

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29th November 1976, lot 452.
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Chia.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5th November 1996, lot 635.
LITERATURE
Julian Thompson, ‘Chinese Celadons’, Arts of Asia, November-
December 1993, p. 70, " g. 14.
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࠰ಥᘽబˢ1976ϋ11˜29˚dᇜ໮452
Jack Chia ͸ᙨϗᔛ
࠰ಥᘽబˢ1996ϋ11˜5˚dᇜ໮635
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ϡಷ͛d”Chinese Celadons•dArts of Asia‘d
1993ϋ11Ї12˜dࠫ70dྡ14

$ 150,000-250,000