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A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON FIGURE OF
2350 PUXIAN SEATED ON AN ELEPHANT
MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
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Puxian, the bodhisattva of Universal
Goodness, is shown seated on a lotus socle
supported on the back of an elephant, and
holding a lotus stem that supports a book
over the right shoulder. The unglazed face,
chest and hands, and the eyes of the elephant
are of brick-red color.
9¿ in. (23.2 cm.) high

$7,000-9,000

A similar Longquan celadon fgure of Puxian
riding an elephant is illustrated by J. Harrison-
Hall in Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming
Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001,
p. 501, no. 16:97, where it is dated c. 1368-
1450, and where another in the Victoria and
Albert Museum is mentioned.

明十四/十五世紀
龍泉窯青釉露胎普賢騎象擺件

2350
A LONGQUAN CELADON PEAR-SHAPED
VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

The body is carved with two lotus sprays
above the bow-string band and a band
of upright petals rising from the slightly
spreading foot. The waisted neck is encircled
by a double bow-string band below a band
of upright leaves interrupted by a pair
of dragon-fsh handles suspending large
stationary rings from their tails. The vase is
covered in a glaze of olive-green color.
8Ω in. (20.6 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE:

Private collection, Japan, since the late
19th-early 20th century.

Compare the vase illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu,
Tokyo, 1981, vol. 13, p. 186, no. 169, which has
a band of petals below foliate decoration on a
pear-shaped body and stationary rings pendent
from mask handles, but the neck is far taller,
with a trumpet mouth, and the foliate scroll is in
slip under the glaze and not carved.

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龍泉窯青釉蓮紋魚龍啣環耳玉壺春瓶