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A LONGQUAN CELADON TRIPOD BULB BOWL
MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

The compressed body is raised on three curved mask supports and carved around the sides
with the Eight Trigrams (bagua) between bands of bosses. The whole is covered in a glaze
of rich sea-green color, revealing the burnt-red body in the center decorated with a molded
fower medallion.
12Ω in. (31.7 cm.) diam., wood stand

$5,000-7,000

A similar Longquan celadon bulb bowl, but decorated with a fu character in the interior, is illustrated
by Bo Gyllensvärd in Chinese Ceramics in The Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1965, p. 65, no. 157.
Another similar bulb bowl is illustrated in Chinese Celadons and Other Related Wares in Southeast Asia,
Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Singapore, 1979, pl. 179.
明十四/十五世紀 龍泉青釉八卦紋三足爐

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