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A GROUP OF THREE BROWN GLAZED BOWLS WITH TWO GREEN GLAZED BOWLS WITH UNGLAZED STACKING
IMPRESSED DECORATION RINGS
Tran-Le dynasties, 14th/15th century Tran-Le dynasties, 14th/15th century
Each with a delicately foliated rim and impressed decoration across the The larger bowl with a cut rim and a well impressed with alternating
well: the first bowl showing alternating cloud and floral panels around flower heads separated by raised ribs above an unglazed stacking ring
a cloud roundel and the second bowl impressed with a lotus pod in the dark green glaze layer that continues on the exterior, stopping
medallion surrounded by flowering plants, five spur marks appearing in unevenly above a tall foot and recessed base; the smaller bowl
the dark brown glaze across both wells; the third bowl impressed with elaborately molded with a barbed rim and conforming ribs down the
alternating peony and prunus flowers and the abbreviated Chinese walls of the well also impressed with phoenixes in flight amid clouds
characters guan yao at the center surrounded by an unglazed firing and a cloud roundel framed by the unglazed stacking ring in the pale
ring within the pale brown glaze layer; the glaze on all three bowls leaf green glaze layer also covering the exterior walls, a reddish brown
continuing onto the exterior walls, stopping unevenly above each foot wash applied inside the foot and on the recessed base.
ring and recessed base. 6 1/2 and 6 1/8in (16.5 and 15.5cm) diameter
6 1/2in and 6 3/8in (16.5 and 16cm) diameter
$800 - 1,200
$1,000 - 1,500
Published
Published James H. Brow and Anh Hoang Brow, ‘Vietnamese Ceramics: A Ten
The first two bowls are illustrated in James H. Brow and Anh Hoang Thousand Year Continuum,’ Arts of Asia, March-April 2004, p. 84, no.
Brow, ‘Vietnamese Ceramics: A Ten Thousand Year Continuum,’ Arts 9.
of Asia, March-April 2004, p. 84, no. 9.
For three glazed bowls marked with similar unglazed stacking rings in
For bowls with similar impressed decoration to the first and second the wells, see John Stevenson and John Guy, Vietnamese Ceramics: A
bowls in this, see John Stevenson and John Guy, Vietnamese Separate Tradition, 1997, p. 279, no. 196.
Ceramics: A Separate Tradition, 1997, p. 278, nos. 193 and 195; for
the guan yao mark impressed on the third bowl, see p. 279, no. 197.

867
A CELADON BOWL WITH IMPRESSED DECORATION
Tran dynasty, 14th century
Molded with a barbed rim and a double-layer design on the interior
walls of flower and leaf sprays scattered over large lotus petals
radiating upward form a central roundel of two impressed fish, the
exterior walls incised with radiating lines, the olive glaze stopping
unevenly along the thick foot ring.
6 5/8in (17cm)
$1,000 - 2,000

Published
James H. Brow and Anh Hoang Brow, ‘Vietnamese Ceramics: A Ten
Thousand Year Continuum,’ Arts of Asia, March-April 2004, p. 89, no.
22.

The color and shape of this bowl imitate Chinese Longquan ceramics
exported throughout Southeast Asia, many of which were centered
with a pair of fish in high relief. For a Longquan prototype, as well as
a Vietnamese dish stamped with a pair of fish at the center similar
to those on this bowl, see see John Stevenson and John Guy,
867 Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition, 1997, p. 265, no. 168.

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