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The Property of a Lady 女士藏品

8 Exceptionally large dishes such as the present lot are very rare due
A rare very large Longquan celadon-glazed dish to the difficulty in firing a dish of such massive proportions and
Yongle/ Xuande weight. These sizable dishes were particularly admired in the Near
The sturdily potted dish incised in the well with a heavy peony bloom East, where they were used for lavish court banquets, and examples
issuing from a leafy stem, surrounded by floral and foliate meanders are extant in two of the greatest Near Eastern collections, namely
beneath a narrow band incised with delicate floral sprays beneath the the Topkapi Saray, Istanbul and the Archaeological Museum, Tehran
rim, the exterior moulded with heavier floral meanders and all covered from the Ardebil Shrine. The largest dish from the Ardebil Shrine is
with an even-toned pale-green glaze revealing the orange biscuit in a very similar in size to the present lot, measuring 55cm diam; see
single circle on the base. J.A.Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, 2nd ed.,
54.3cm (21 3/8in) diam. London, 1981, pl.129, fig.29.626; the Topkapi Saray collection
£10,000 - 15,000 which houses numerous celadon glazed dishes, appears to include
HK$120,000 - 190,000 CNY98,000 - 150,000 only four of larger size, with the vast majority of the dishes being
of smaller dimensions compared to the present dish; see R.Krahl,
明永樂/宣德 龍泉窯青釉花卉紋盤 J.Ayres, ed., Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum,
Provenance: an English private collection Istanbul: Yuan and Ming Dynasty Celadon Wares, London, 1986.
來源：英國私人收藏 A related larger Longquan floral dish, circa 1403-1424 (63.5cm
diam.) is illustrated in J.Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British
Museum, London, 2001, no.16:64.

Compare a related but larger (64.6cm diam.) Longquan celadon dish,
late 14th/ early 15th century, sold at Christie’s London, 7 November
2006, lot 160. See also a related smaller (32.4cm) ‘Longquan’
celadon dish, Yongle, from J.T. Tai & Co., sold at Sotheby’s New
York, 22 March 2011, lot 86.

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