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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (LOTS 68-70)
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A LONGQUAN CELADON ‘DRAGON’ CHARGER
YUAN DYNASTY (1271-1368)
The dish is moulded to the centre with a powerful, writhing four-clawed
dragon below a band of stylised foliage to the cavetto. The reverse is further
moulded with upright petals and the charger is covered all over with a glaze of
bluish-green tone with the exception of the unglazed orange-buf colour foot
ring.
14º in. (36.1 cm.) diam.
£30,000-50,000 $43,000-70,000
€35,000-57,000
PROVENANCE
Private European Collection, acquired prior to 2000.
A similar example in the Topkapi Saray is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in
the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, Vol. 1, p 256, no. 62 while a comparable
dish with the dragon chasing a faming pearl in the British Museum is
illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World’s Great Collections, Vol. 5., Tokyo,
1981, no. 132. A further comparable dish was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 31
May 2017, lot 3005.
元 龍泉青釉龍紋大盤
來源: 歐洲私人珍藏, 於2000年前所購
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