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A LARGE CARVED ‘LONGQUAN’
CELADON ‘LOTUS’ BOWL
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
of deep form rising from a short foot carved
with a keyfret band, the steep sides carved
around the exterior with a continuous band of
lotus blooms and buds borne on an undulating
leafy stem, the well carved with a further dense
scrolling lotus band around a large central
chrysanthemum flower, covered overall with
a pale green glaze, thinning on the ridges and
pooling in the recesses, reserved inside the
footrim with a single band revealing the body
underneath burnt a pale orange-red in the firing
25.8 cm, 10⅛ in.
‡ £ 30,000-50,000
HK$ 308,000-515,000 US$ 39,300-65,500
明十五世紀 龍泉窰青釉刻纏枝
蓮紋盌
A well-known type as several examples in the
National Palace Museum Collection, Taipei,
illustrated in Tsai Mei-fen, Green-Longquan
Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2009, pls.
16-20, demonstrate.

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