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A CARVED ‘LONGQUAN’ CELADON-GLAZED
‘BOY AND LOTUS’ INKSTONE, YUAN DYNASTY
(2)
Length 5 in., 12.8 cm

PROVENANCE
Hong Kong Private Collection.
Compare a similar Longquan ‘boy and lotus’ box and cover,
from the Edward T. Chow Collection, sold in our London
rooms, 16th December 1980, lot 307.

⊖ $ 4,000-6,000
元 龍泉窰青釉持蓮童子紋方硯

來源：
香港私人收藏

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A ‘LONGQUAN’ CELADON-GLAZED BOAT-FORM 明 龍泉窰青釉舟式爐 A ‘LONGQUAN’ CELADON-GLAZED ‘DRAGON’
CENSER, MING DYNASTY TABLE SCREEN, MING DYNASTY
Japanese wood box (4) 來源： Japanese wood box (3)
Length 6⅞ in., 17.5 cm 日本私人收藏 Length 6¼ in., 16 cm
PROVENANCE PROVENANCE
Japanese Private Collection.
Japanese Private Collection.
See two related boat-form waterdroppers of similar style See two related table screens in the British Museum, London
and form illustrated in Tianxia Longquan: Longquan qingci yu (accession nos PDF,A.206-7), both dated with inscriptions
quanqiu hua / Longquan of the World: Longquan Celadon and to the 5th year of Hongwu, corresponding to 1492, and
Globalization, vol. 1, Beijing, 2019, cat. nos 106-107, the first illustrated in Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of
in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou and the latter Celadon Wares, London, 1977, pls 103-104. Both are similarly
in the Palace Museum, Beijing.
decorated with chamfered corners to the top rail and similar
side supports as the present screen.
⊖ $ 7,000-9,000
⊖ $ 5,000-7,000
明 龍泉窰青釉雲龍紋硯屏
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來源：
日本私人收藏

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