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TWO ‘LONGQUAN’ CELADON-GLAZED ‘FLORAL’ 明 龍泉窰青釉纏枝花卉紋蓋罐兩件
JARS AND COVERS, MING DYNASTY
(4) 來源：
Height overall 6¾ in., 17 cm Warren E. Cox，紐約
Chester D. Tripp (1883-1974) 收藏
PROVENANCE
芝加哥藝術博物館，芝加哥 (館藏編號1988.169.2a-b)
Warren E. Cox, New York. 紐約佳士得2019年9月12日，編號703
Collection of Chester D. Tripp (1883-1974).
Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
(accession nos 1988.169.2a-b).
Christie’s New York, 12th September 2019, lot 703.
See a closely related jar and cover, and a slightly larger
jar with a similar cover in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
both illustrated in Tianxia Longquan: Longquan qingci yu
quanqiu hua / Longquan of the World: Longquan Celadon
and Globalization, vol. 2, Beijing, 2019, cat. nos 183 and 173
respectively. Compare another similar example illustrated in
Andre Leth, Catalogue of Selected Objects of Chinese Art in
the Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, 1959, pl. 97.
⊖ $ 12,000-18,000

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A RARE ‘LONGQUAN’ CELADON-GLAZED 明 龍泉窰青釉菱口盌
FOLIATE-RIMMED ‘FLORAL’ BOWL,
MING DYNASTY 來源：
Diameter 6 in., 15.4 cm Marie Vergottis (1914-1999) 收藏
馬錢特，倫敦，2010年10月6日
PROVENANCE
Strauss收藏
Collection of Marie Vergottis (1914-1999). 巴黎佳士得2021年12月10日，編號728
Marchant, London, 6th October 2010.
Strauss Collection.
Christie’s Paris, 10th December 2021, lot 728.
The present bowl is rare on account of its form and
decoration. The lobed exterior is decorated with upright
scrolling branches while the interior is carved with radiating
petals encircling a central flowerhead. Dishes with similar
decoration to the interior of the present bowl are more well
known. See one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated
in Tianxia Longquan: Longquan qingci yu quanqiu hua /
Longquan of the World: Longquan Celadon and Globalization,
vol. 1, Beijing, 2019, cat. no. 152; another in the collection
of Ng Seng Hiok, included in Chinese Celadons and Other
Related Wares in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian Ceramic
Society, Singapore, 1979, cat. no. 228; and five illustrated
in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray
Museum, Istanbul, vol. I, London, 1986, pls 402-404.
Compare a stem cup of related form in the Phoenix Art
Museum, Phoenix, and included in Chinese Ceramics: The
Wong Collection, Phoenix, 1982, cat. no. 29.
⊖ $ 5,000-7,000

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