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PROPERTY FROM A CONNECTICUT PRIVATE COLLECTION
A CELADON-GLAZED ‘LONGQUAN’ ‘TOBI SEIJI’
STEMCUP
YUAN DYNASTY
the waisted stem encircled by two raised fillets and
supporting a bowl with rounded sides flaring at the rim,
covered overall in a lustrous sage-green glaze whimsically
splashed with dabs of iron-brown transmuting to iridescent
tones from firing, wood stand (2)
Height 3¼ in., 8.2 cm

$ 5,000-7,000

元 龍泉窰青釉褐斑高足盃

779

PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION
A LARGE CELADON-GLAZED ‘LONGQUAN’
TRIPOD BOWL
MING DYNASTY

well-potted, of shallow circular form with an incurved rim,
raised on three triangular animal-mask feet, the exterior
778 deftly carved with a scrolling band of peonies between two
rows of raised bosses, glazed overall in a rich olive-green
save for the center, impressed with a peony medallion burnt
orange in the firing and surrounded by irregular drips of
glaze, the countersunk base also unglazed
Diameter 12½ in., 31.5 cm
PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 6th June 1985, lot 392.
$ 8,000-12,000

明 龍泉窰青釉刻纏枝牡丹紋三足爐
來源
紐約佳士得1985年6月6日，編號392

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