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A LARGE CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON
VASE
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
The vase has an oviform body and trumpet neck
and is carved on the shoulder with a wide band of
peony scroll bearing two large blossoms above
a band of foliate scroll and upright petals on the
lower body, the neck with a band of upright leaves
below ribbed bands. The vase is covered with a
thick glaze of sea-green tone.
24 in. (61 cm.) high
$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE
Warren E. Cox Associates, Inc., New York,
9 February 1972.
A similar Longquan vase is illustrated in Sekai
toji zenshu, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 14, no. 231. Compare,
also, the well-known Longquan celadon vase in
the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
now on long term loan to the British Museum,
London, with an incised inscription at the base
of its slender, tapering neck dating the vase
to 1454. Another example is illustrated by R.
Krahl, ‘Longquan Celadon of the Yuan and
Ming Dynasties in the Topkapi Saray Museum,
Istanbul’, T.O.C.S., 1984-1985, vol. 49, p. 53.
no. 23. See, also, a similar vase but carved with
chrysanthemum scroll, sold at Christie’s New
York, 26 March 2003, lot 240.
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