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A LARGE AND RARE ‘LONGQUAN’ CELADON- 明初 龍泉窰青釉纏枝花卉紋缽
GLAZED ‘FLORAL’ ALMS BOWL (BO),
EARLY MING DYNASTY 來源：
Diameter 15½ in., 39.5 cm 英國私人收藏

PROVENANCE
English Private Collection.
Heavily potted and decorated with floral scrolls to the
exterior below a keyfret band, the present bowl is rare on
account of its size and form. See a closely related alms bowl,
of smaller size without a keyfret band at the lip, attributed
to the early Ming dynasty, most likely produced for imperial
use, in the Palace Museum, Beijing (accession no.
新00041518), illustrated in Tianxia Longquan: Longquan
qingci yu quanqiu hua / Longquan of the World: Longquan
Celadon and Globalization, vol. 1, Beijing, 2019, cat. no. 130.
⊖ $ 2,000-3,000

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A LARGE CARVED ‘LONGQUAN’ CELADON- 元 / 明 龍泉窰青釉刻花八卦紋三足爐
GLAZED ‘TRIGRAM’ TRIPOD CENSER, YUAN /
MING DYNASTY 來源：
Diameter 12 in., 30.5 cm 馬錢特，倫敦
Gregory F. Sullivan博士伉儷收藏
PROVENANCE

Marchant, London.
Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Gregory F. Sullivan.
See two closely related tripod censers in the Palace
Museum, Beijing (accession nos 新00083693 and
新00083654); one in the British Museum, London, formerly
in the Harry Oppenheim Collection and illustrated in Jessica
Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London,
2001, pl. 16-89; another, included in Chinese Celadons and
Other Related Wares in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian
Ceramic Society, Singapore, 1979, cat. no. 209; and lastly,
one sold at Christie’s London, 3rd December 1973, lot 160.
⊖ $ 10,000-15,000

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