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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARTIN AND MIRIAM PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
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5072 A LONGQUAN CELADON BALUSTER VASE
A LONGQUAN CELADON FOOTED CENSER Ming dynasty
Ming dynasty Thickly potted with a flared rim to the conical neck, a garden rock and
Thickly molded with a band of rosettes above the eight trigrams in lotus plants carved in shallow relief around the elongated ovoid body
raised relief on the exterior walls, a low conical flange projecting on beneath a gray-green glaze filled with extensive craze lines covering all
the base to the center of the three animal-paw feet, the pale gray- surfaces except the thick foot pad (rim repaired and retouched); with
green glaze stopping short of the projecting flange and the impressed loosely attached pieced wood display stand.
roundel to the center of the interior well, leaving a pale cinnamon burn 13 1/2in (34.2cm) height of vase
to the unglazed surfaces in both places (chips, wear to glaze). 16 3/8in (41.5cm) height including wood stand
12 3/4in (32.3cm) diameter
US$1,200 - 2,000
US$4,000 - 6,000
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5073 A SHUFU-TYPE GLAZED DEEP DISH
A LONGQUAN CELADON BALUSTER VASE WITH CARVED Yuan dynasty
DECORATION Impressed with the character shu in a flower and leaf scroll band
Ming dynasty surrounding further blurred tendrils across the floor of the curving
Thickly molded with a cylindrical neck and elongated body, a large well covered by a matte and pale greenish-white glaze that continues
band of lotus flowers and leaves carved and combed into the walls onto the exterior walls and foot, the recessed base and foot pad left
above vertical ribs shallowly impressed along the waisted foot, the pale unglazed (firing crack, foot chip).
sea-green glaze on all surfaces except the foot pad showing a dense
web of craze lines (rim chipped). 6 1/4in (16.1cm) diameter of dish
13 1/4in (33.6cm) high
US$1,000 - 1,500
US$2,000 - 3,000
The matte glaze, described as eggshell white (luanbai) and the
impressed character shu (pivot or place) associate this dish with
the shufu group of wares produced during the Yuan dynasty for the
Mongol rulers under the supervision of a government bureau, the
Shumei yuan. Dishes of similar shape and foot construction, identified
as shufu ware and described with a luanbai glaze, were excavated
from an abandoned cellar in Gao’an county, Jiangxi province in 1980,
along with hundreds of Longquan and blue and white porcelains from
the Yuan period. See Liu Jincheng, Gao’an yuan dai jiao cang ciqi
(Beijing, 2006) for dishes of similar size and foot configuration: p. 80
(height 4.5cm, diameter 16.1cm, diameter of foot 5.8cm) and p. 81
(height 4.2cm, diameter 16.1cm, diameter of foot 5.8 cm and weight
280 grams). In comparison, this lot measures 4.2cm high, diameter of
the foot 5.4cm and weight 242 grams.
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