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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
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AN EXCEPTIONAL AND VERY RARE LONGQUAN GUAN-TYPE illustrated by He Li in Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey, New
MALLOW-FORM DISH York, 1996, no. 267, and the dish illustrated in the J. J. Lally & Co. exhibition
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 1127-1279) catalogue, The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon, Chinese Ceramics
and Works of Art, Spring 2009, no. 23.
The dish with a concave, shallow center is potted with wide everted mouth
rim in the form of a mallow flower, and is covered overall in a rich greyish-blue
glaze suffused with a network of dense icy crackles. 重要私人珍藏
7 in. (17.7 cm.) diam., cloth box 南宋 龍泉窯仿官釉葵口盤
來源:
$80,000-120,000
暫得樓胡惠春(1911-1995) 珍藏
PROVENANCE: 出版:
The J. M. Hu (1911-1995), Zande Lou Collection.
Helen D. Ling及仇焱之, 《暫得樓珍藏歷代名瓷影譜》, 卷一, 香港, 1950年, 編號
LITERATURE: 22
Helen D. Ling and Edward T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the
Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1950, no. 22.

The glaze of this extraordinary dish is remarkable for its distinctive cool,
greyish-blue color and for the dense suffusion of icy crackles in flake-like
layers, which is reminiscent of some of the finest Guan glazes. R. Scott notes
in 'Guan or Ge Ware: A re-examination of some pieces in the Percival David
Foundation', Oriental Art, Summer 1993, Vol. XXXIX, no. 2, pp. 16-19, that the
Longquan kiln specialist Professor Zhu Boqian has suggested that the the
kilns began to make crackled wares perhaps about 1200, in imitation of the
wares produced at Jiaotanxia. According to excavation reports, places where
these Longquan Guan-type wares were made include Xinting, Aodi and
Shanshu Lianshan in Dayao county, and Wayaoqing, Kulouwan and Lijiashan
in Xikou county. See Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Sung Dynasty
Kuan Ware, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1989, p. 30.

This dish is not only distinguished by its beautiful glaze, but also by its rare
and elegant shape suggestive of a mallow flower. A Longquan dish of similar
shape, but with the rim divided into six petal lobes, rather than seven as on
the current dish, and the glaze without crackle, is illustrated by R. Krahl in
Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Three (II), London,
2006, p. 581, no. 1570. Other Longquan dishes with lobed rims divided
into six petals include the dish in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, (label on box)

The present dish illustrated by H. D. Ling and E. T. Chow in Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1950, no. 22.
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