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A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON JAR AND COVER A PAIR OF VERY LARGE TURQUOISE AND AUBERGINE-GLAZED
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644) ROOF TILES
The well potted jar is of compressed baluster form, and is carved with lotus MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
blossoms above a band of overlapping petals. The cover is also carved with Each tile is modeled as a foreigner wearing a long-sleeved robe and peaked
lotus blossoms, and is surmounted by a stem-form fnial. The jar and cover are cap seated astride fying a Buddhist lion grasping a brocade ball in its
covered with a glaze of sea-green tone which also covers the base. forepaws, all under aubergine, turquoise, cream and amber glazes.
11 in. (28 cm.) high 29 in. (73.6 cm) high (2)
$15,000-25,000 $20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE PROVENANCE
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 15 April 1965. Perret Vibert, Paris, 9 June 1970.
EXHIBITED
During the Ming period the main centers for the production for tilework
On loan: Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, May 1981-
fgures were in Shanxi, Hebei and Henan counties in the north and Jiangsu,
July 1992.
Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong counties in the south. According to J.
明 龍泉青釉荷紋蓋罐 Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pp.
537-38, large tilework fgures were “made in section molds, hand fnished,
and glazed in the sancai or fahua palettes of the tile-making industries,” and
“would have been produced in specially built small kilns.” The author goes
on to note that “large-scale sculptures, created by artisans rather than by
individual artists, were predominantly produced for religious purposes,” with
most of them placed in temples. Compare the similarly large pair of glazed
tileworks fgures of foreigners seated on Buddhist lions sold at Christie’s
New York, 19-20 September 2013, lot 1290.
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