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A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON ‘LOTUS’ A slightly larger 15th-century Longquan charger of similar
CHARGER design, but with an everted rim and its exterior undecorated,
EARLY MING DYNASTY is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, and included in
Green: Lonquan Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2009,
the rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to a lipped rim, cat. no. 35. Another early Ming charger of comparable
freely carved to the central interior with a spray of flowering size, also from the Qing court collection, with a lotus spray
lotus with broad leaves, encircled by an undulating lotus growing from waves in the centre, is exhibited in Longquan
scroll, the exterior similarly decorated with a foliate band, of the World: Longquan Celadon and Globalization, Palace
applied overall with a pale sea-green glaze Museum, Beijing, 2019, vol. II: State Vessels, cat. no. 130. See
45.5 cm, 17⅞ in. two further examples sold in our London rooms, 12th June
1990, lot 202, and 6th December 1994, lot 134.
HK$ 120,000-150,000
US$ 15,400-19,200

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