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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION The thickly applied jade-like glaze of the A dish of this type in the collection of the National
‘Longquan’ wares has been much admired and Palace Museum, Taipei, was included in the
A LARGE ‘LONGQUAN’ CELADON sought after since the fth and sixth centuries exhibition Green Longquan Celadon of the Ming
‘LOTUS’ DISH in China. However, vessels of this large size and Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2011,
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY incised decoration began in the late Yuan and cat. no. 36.
early Ming dynasty, signaling a change in the
robustly potted, with rounded sides rising from decorative strategies of ‘Longquan’ wares that Closely related examples include a large dish
a short tapered foot to a broad everted rim, corresponded to new foreign in uences and from the collection of J. C. Thomson, which sold
the interior boldly carved with a single lotus increased export demand for wares of this type. in our London rooms, 15th June 1982, lot 86; one
medallion, with three scrolling vines at the rim, ‘Longquan’ wares were exported to the Middle from the Edward T. Chow collection, also sold in
covered overall with a rich even olive-green glaze, East and became essential vessels in the large the same rooms, 7th June 1994, lot 324; and a
the base with a burnt-orange unglazed ring communal banquets held by royalty, such as the dish from the collection of John F. Lewis, Jr., sold
Diameter 17½ in., 44.5 cm Ottoman sultanate in Istanbul. Examples of these in these rooms, 15th September 2015, lot 4.
large dishes with everted rims and central motifs
PROVENANCE of incised owers in the collection of the Topkapi $ 30,000-50,000
Saray Museum, Istanbul, are illustrated in Regina
Sotheby’s London, 14th May 2008, lot 539. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray
Museum, vol. 1, London, 1986, pls 429-436.
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