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A FINELY CARVED ‘LONGQUAN’ CELADON- 明十五世纪 龍泉窰青釉番蓮紋盤
GLAZED ‘LOTUS’ DISH, MING DYNASTY,
15TH CENTURY 來源：
Diameter 6⅞ in., 17.5 cm 香港蘇富比1979年5月21日，編號29
Spink & Son，倫敦，1979年7月
PROVENANCE
George S. Hayer Jr. (1930-2015) 博士收藏
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 21st May 1979, lot 29. 紐約佳士得2018年3月23日，編號923
Spink & Son., London, July 1979.
Collection of Dr. George S. Hayer Jr. (1930-2015).
Christie’s New York, 23rd March 2018, lot 923.
Skillfully delineated, a single stylized lotus spray in the center
of the dish is surrounded by a band of lotus blooms on the
well, all beneath a band of classic floral scrolls at the rim. The
exterior is also similarly decorated with a band of key-fret
around the foot.
See a closely related example in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
and illustrated in Tianxia Longquan: Longquan qingci yu
quanqiu hua / Longquan of the World: Longquan Celadon and
Globalization, vol. 2, Beijing, 2019, cat. no. 165, where Huang
Weiwen attributes the dish to be produced around the reigns
of the Zhengtong to Tianshun emperors, citing similarities of
decoration between Longquan examples and closely related
blue and white dishes excavated at the Jingdezhen sites of
the period. Another closely related dish, of slightly larger
size, is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated
in Bilu Mingdai Longquan yao qingci / Green - Longquan
Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2009, cat. no. 45.

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