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A CELADON-GLAZED WASHER
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The shallow washer is incised on the top of the everted rim with a continuous
scroll of lingzhi fungus and covered inside and out with a glaze of soft blue-
green color which stops neatly at the fat unglazed base.
6¡ in. (16.3 cm.) diam., box
$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE
The Langsdorf Collection; Doyle’s New York, 19 March 2012, lot 295.
The present washer is inspired by Longquan celadon vessels of very similar
form from the Southern Song dynasty, which were much admired by the
Qianlong Emperor. See, for example, a 13th century Longquan celadon
washer of the same size included in the Qianlong-period album ‘Refned
Ceramics of Collected Antiquity’, illustrated in Obtaining Refned Enjoyment:
The Qianlong Emperor’s Taste in Ceramics, Taipei, 2012, no. 104.
清十八/十九世紀 粉青釉靈芝紋折沿洗
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