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2348 This rare dish is similar to two other published examples of larger size, one
A RARE SMALL BISCUIT-DECORATED LONGQUAN CELADON PETAL- (6æ in. diam.) in the Art Institute of Chicago, illustrated by Sherman. E.
LOBED DISH Lee and Wai-Kam Ho, Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368) (1279-1368), Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968, no. 76; the other (6 in.
diam.) illustrated by Warren E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain,
The shallow dish with chrysanthemum petal-lobed rim is covered vol. I, New York, c. 1944, p. 152, fg. 310. These dishes and the present
overall with a glaze of soft sea-green color except for the sprig dish are all decorated with cranes and clouds left in the biscuit so that
molded biscuit decoration of two cranes in fight between two clouds they have fred to a reddish brown in contrast to the celadon glaze, and all
on the interior. have molded chrysanthemum petals that form the well and rim. A similar
5º in. (13.3 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box chrysanthemum-petal rim can also be seen on a dish with biscuit decoration
of two phoenixes alternating with two insects in the Avery Brundage
$15,000-25,000 Collection, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, illustrated
by Lee and Ho, ibid., no. 75. Also illustrated, no. 78, is a related dish of
PROVENANCE: barbed-petal outline decorated in biscuit relief with three birds perched
on leafy branches with peaches suspended from their beaks, from the
Private collection, Japan, acquired in the 1980s. collection of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London. Another
related dish of this type, with petal-lobed rim and biscuit decoration of
fruiting branches of peach, pomegranate and melon, from the collection of
the British Rail Pension Fund, was sold at Sotheby’s London, 12 December
1989, lot 95.

元 龍泉窯青釉露胎模印貼雲鶴紋花口小盤

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