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A LONGQUAN CELADON ‘LOTUS’ BOWL AND COVER
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The deep sides are carved on the exterior with overlapping petals and the bowl is covered inside and out
below the unglazed rim with an unctuous bluish-green glaze. The cover is similarly carved and glazed.
4Ω in. (11.2 cm.) diam., cloth box

$8,000-12,000

Compare the very similar bowl and cover found in 1991 in Jinyu village of Nanqiong, Suining city, Sichuan
province, illustrated in Longquan Celadon: The Sichuan Museum Collection, Macau, 1998, pp. 216-17, no.
88. Also illustrated, pp. 112-15, are fve cups of the same shape and design, with matching covers, nos.
99, 86, 84, 85, 87. Another very similar bowl, but without a cover, in the collection of The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, was sold at Christie’s New York, Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from The
Metropolitan Museum, 15 September 2016, lot 804.
南宋 龍泉青釉蓮瓣蓋盌

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