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A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON-GLAZED POMEGRANATE- This is from a rare group of Longquan vases which are inspired by
FORM VASE, SHILIU ZUN contemporaneous metal ware. A very similar vase is in the Palace Museum
EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY in Beijing and is illustrated in Ceramics Galleries of the Palace Museum,
The body of the vase is decorated with four alternating panels enclosing lychee Part II, Beijing, 2008, p. 373, pl. 290. A smaller vase without the moulded
branches and lotus blooms above a lappet band at the foot. The shoulder is decoration, is in the British Museum, illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall in Ming
carved with a band of circular blooms, and the ribbed neck is decorated with Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 474, pl.16:33 where the
a lotus scroll beneath a band of stif leaves, all below a wide faring rim carved author states that Tibetan brass and copper ewers may have inspired the
with a chevron band and applied with a row of bosses.
unusual roll-up mouth with bosses as seen on the current lot.
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high
£8,000-12,000 $11,000-16,000 Compare also to three other examples decorated with panels similar to the
€9,000-13,000 present lot. The frst is illustrated in Ye Peilan, Yuandai ciqi, Beijing, 1998, p.
259, pl. 446 and in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol. 13, Japan, 1981,
PROVENANCE p. 181, pl. 150. The other two are in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, and
Christie’s London, 12 May 2009, lot 154.
illustrated in Green-Longquan Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2009, pp.
148-151, pls. 75 and 76.
Another example with a carved rather than moulded primary decorative band
was sold on two occasions, the frst at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2007,
lot 1472, and most recently at Christie’s Hong Kong, 31 May 2017, lot 3009
from the Roger Belanich Collection of Longquan Celadon Ceramics.
明初十四/十五世紀 龍泉青釉花果紋尊

來源: 倫敦佳士得2009年5月12日拍賣，拍品154號

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