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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A VERY RARE LONGQUAN CELADON OCTAGONAL DISH 重要私人珍藏
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
南宋 龍泉青釉八方盤
The dish has a circular concave center and is covered overall with an even
bluish-green glaze suffused with faint crackle. 來源:
暫得樓胡惠春(1911-1995) 珍藏
6Ω in. (16.5 cm.) across, cloth box
展覽:
$60,000-80,000 紐約日本協會暨布魯克林博物館, 「Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of East
Asian Art from New York Private Collections」, 1999年, 編號46
PROVENANCE:
The J. M. Hu (1911-1995), Zande Lou Collection. 出版:
Helen D. Ling及仇焱之, 《暫得樓珍藏歷代名瓷影譜》, 卷一, 香港, 1950年,
EXHIBITED: 編號27
New York, Japan Society in association with the Brooklyn Museum of
A. G. Poster, 《Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of East Asian Art from New
Art, Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of East Asian Art from New York Private
Collections, New York, 1999, no. 46. York Private Collections》, 日本協會暨布魯克林博物館, 紐約, 1999年, 編號46,
頁136-137
LITERATURE:
Helen D. Ling and Edward T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the
Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1950, no. 27.
A. G. Poster, Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of East Asian Art from New York
Private Collections, Japan Society in association with the Brooklyn Museum of
Art, New York, 1999, no. 46, pp.136-137.
The elegant shape of this dish, with the flat, everted, octagonal rim, was likely
based on Song-dynasty silver and gold prototypes. It is very rare to find a
Longquan celadon dish of this shape and very few are published. The present
example is distinguished by its lustrous glaze with a dynamic, icy crackle.
A similar dish (15.87 cm.) with a finely crackled glaze can be found in the
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Avery Brundage Collection, illustrated
by M. Tregear in Song Ceramics, New York, 1982, p.138, no. 183. A dish of
this shape, accompanied by a small octagonal bowl, from the Szekeres
Collection, is illustrated by J.J. Lally & Co. in Chinese Art, The Szekeres
Collection, New York, 2019, no. 2 where it is noted that a gold octagonal dish
and matching bowl from the tomb of the Southern Song official Zhu Xiyan
(1135-1200) and his wife is illustrated in by the Zhejiang Provincial Museum,
Zhong king ji sheng: Nan Song feng wu guanzhi (Achievements of Southern
Song Dynasty), Beijing, 2015, p. 16, pl. 10. Another parcel-gilt silver example
with matching bowl is illustrated in the same publication, p. 27, pl. 52.
(label from bx)

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. 46.
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