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A LONGQUAN CELADON TRIPOD CENSER
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
The globular body supported on three cabriole legs
rises to a straight neck applied with a pair of upright
loop handles. The censer is covered with a glaze of
sea-green tone.
6Ω in. (17 cm.) high, metal cover, Japanese wood box
$6,000-8,000
元 龍泉青釉鼎式爐

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PROPERTY FROM THE JAMES K. LI COLLECTION
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A LARGE LONGQUAN CELADON DISH
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
The heavily potted dish with shallow rounded
sides is decorated on the interior with diaper
pattern below a band of foral sprays in the well,
and is covered inside and out with a thick glaze
of olive-green tone, except for a wide ring on the
base which has burnt orange in the fring.
18º in. (46.5 cm.) diam.
$7,000-9,000

PROVENANCE
Collection of Ambassador Ti-Tsun Li (1901-1981),
and thence by descent to the present owner.
EXHIBITED
Santiago, Chile, National Museum of Fine
Arts, 3,000 anos de Arte Chino (3000 years of
Chinese Art), 3-29 September 1968.
LITERATURE
National Museum of Fine Arts, 3,000 anos
de Arte Chino (3000 years of Chinese Art),
Santiago, Chile, 1968, p. 11.
明十五世紀 龍泉青釉大盤

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