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A VERY RARE CARVED LONGQUAN
CELADON YUHUCHUNPING
MING DYNASTY, EARLY 15TH CENTURY
The pear-shaped body of the vase is carved with
a continuous scene of leafy plantain and rocks in
a fenced garden, all above a lappet band by the
foot. The shoulder is decorated with a carved ruyi-
head band below a trellis band and a keyfret band,
followed by a band of stiff leaves to the neck rising
to the lipped rim.
13 º in. (33.5 cm.) high, Japanese Meiji-period
(1868-1912) paulownia wood box.
HK$400,000-500,000
US$52,000-64,000
PROVENANCE
A Japanese private collector, actively collecting prior
to the 1980s
The Yuhuchunping form was produced during the Yuan
and early Ming period, but the plantain decorative
pattern was only used during the early Ming period.
Compare with a similar plantain-decorated blue and
white Yuhuchunping vase, now in the Palace Museum,
Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum, Blue and White
Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), Hong Kong, 2000,
no.33. See also the bodies of two longquan ewers with
near identical decorations of the leafy plantain and
lappet band, illustrated in Green: Longquan Celadon of
the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2009, no. 61 and Longquan
Ware: Chinese Celadon Beloved of the Japanese,
Japan, 2012, no. 86.

明初 龍泉青釉刻石芭蕉紋玉壺春瓶
來源
日本私人珍藏，於1980年代
之前入藏

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