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A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON EWER

EARLY MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY

The ewer is potted with a pear-shaped body and an elegant spout,
joined to the neck with a cloud-shaped strut opposite an arched
strap-handle, carved around the body with large blooms of peony
flowers borne on scrolling vines growing leaves to the sides, the
tapered neck is decorated with a frieze of smaller leafy scrolls,
below a band of bladed leaves on the upper neck and the everted
rim, all supported on a slightly splayed ring foot incised with a
band of key fret pattern. It is covered overall in a glaze of olive-
green tone with the exception of the ring foot.
12 ƒ in. (31.75 cm.) high

HK$700,000-900,000 US$91,000-120,000

PROVENANCE

A private family collection in Sweden, inherited prior to 1995

Compare to related carved ewers included in the exhibition Green-
Longquan Celadons of the Ming at the National Palace Museum,
Taipei, 2014, Catalogue nos. 60-63. An uncarved Longquan ewer of
very similar shape, also dating to the early Ming dynasty, from the
Manno Museum Collection, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28
October 2002, lot 558 (fig. 1).

䐆℠⭞㕷㓞啷炻两㈧㕤1995⸜ẍ⇵

⎘⊿㓭⭖⌂䈑昊啷㔠ẞ⎴㧋⭂⸜㖶⇅䘬䚠Ụἳ炻叿抬㕤2011⸜
⎘⊿↢䇰˪䡏䵈 – 㖶ẋ漵㱱䩗曺䒟˫炻⚾䇰60–63嘇ˤ⎎⎗⍫
侫ᶨẞ忈⼊䚠栆䃉䲳䘬漵㱱➟⢢炻䁢叔慶伶埻棐冲啷炻2002⸜
10㚰28㖍㕤楁㷗Ἓ⢓⼿㉵岋炻㉵⑩558嘇炷 炸ˤ

fig. 1

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