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A LARGE LONGQUAN CELADON BARBED DISH
MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The dish is sturdily potted with a tapered foot ring rising to the
bracket-lobed cavetto below an everted rim of conforming shape.
The dish is covered overall with an even translucent glaze of soft sea-
green tone with the exception of the wide ring on the recessed base.
18æ in. (47.5 cm.) diam.
$60,000-80,000
PROVENANCE:
Property from the Jingguantang Collection; Christie’s New York, 25
March 1998, lot 191.
The present dish is exceptional for its large size, sophisticated
potting and rich, even-colored glaze, and represents some of the
most highly-skilled celadon wares produced by craftsmen at the
Longquan kilns during the early Ming period. Records from this
time suggest that the kilns were under imperial supervision, and
it appears that standards of production were exceptionally high in
order to meet imperial demand.

An early fifteenth-century dish of similar size to the present dish is
illustrated by R. Krahl and J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi
Saray Museum Istanbul, Vol. 1, Yuan and Ming Dynasty Celadon
Wares, London, 1986, p. 304, no. 245, and another dish of similar
size is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection,
Tokyo, 1987, no. 591. A similar but larger charger, from the collection
of Roger Belanich, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 31 May
2017, lot 3006, and another larger example from the Meiyintang
Collection is illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the
Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 4, no. 1609, and p.
3, fig. 2b, and was subsequently sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 5
October 2011, lot 7.

明十四/十五世紀 龍泉窯青釉折沿花口盤
來源:
靜觀堂珍藏; 紐約佳士得, 1998年3月25日, 拍品191號。