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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. MAURICE BERGER PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. MAURICE BERGER
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A LONGQUAN CELADON ‘CHRYSANTHEMUM’ CUP A RARE QINGBAI PARTIALLY-GLAZED FIGURE OF A
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279) DAOIST SAGE
The bowl has deep, rounded sides carved as chrysanthemum petals that rise SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY
from the small ring foot to the scalloped rim and is covered overall with a soft The fnely modeled sage is shown smiling and wearing a belted robe and cord-
sea-green glaze thinning on the ribs and ending in a line above the edge of the tied shoes, seated on top of a pierced rock stool with his hair worn in two small
foot to expose the buf ware, the convex base similarly glazed. topknots on top of his head, the stool and interior of the sleeves covered with a
transparent pale blue glaze, the remainder of the fgure left in the biscuit.
3Ω in. (8.9 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high
$4,000-6,000
$10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE
Collection of Dickson Reck, Berkeley, acquired in the 1930s or 1940s. PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 22 March 2007, lot 276. Mathias Komor, September 1947.
Frank Caro, New York, February 1966.
EXHIBITED Myron and Pauline Falk Collection, New York, no. 76.
West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Museum of Art, High Tea: Glorious The Falk Collection I Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art; Christie’s
Manifestations, East and West, 19 February - 24 May 2015, no. C23.
New York, 21 September 2001, lot 106.
LITERATURE
EXHIBITED
L. B. Barnes, High Tea: Glorions Manifestations - East and West, Norton Paris, Douares Expositions, 1936.
Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, 2014, no. C5, p. 130.
LITERATURE
See B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese ceramics in the Carl Kempe collection, G. Bo, Jingdezhen Song Yuan ci qi zao xiang (Jingdezhen Porcelain Sculptures
Stockholm, 1965, no. 108, for a Longquan cup of similar shape and glaze. from Song and Yuan Dynasties), privately published, p. 106.
Another similar Longquan cup from the Muwen Tang Collection illustrated
in Song Ceramics from The Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1994, no. 66, p. 168, 南宋十三世紀 青白釉道士坐像
and later sold at Sotheby’s London, 12 November 2003, lot 89. See, also, the
Longquan cup of similar shape, but covered with a greenish-grey Guan-
type glaze, in the Barlow Collection, illustrated by M. Sullivan, in Chinese
Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow,
London, 1963, pl. 91c.
南宋 龍泉青釉花口盞