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PROPERTY FROM THE JAMES K. LI COLLECTION
1176
A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON
BALUSTER VASE
EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The tall, heavily potted, slender vase is carved with
leafy chrysanthemum scroll, beneath a band of
sawtooth design on the canted shoulder, and a line
border around the short, straight neck. The whole is
covered in a glaze of rich olive-green color sufused
with crackle.
15√ in. (40.5 cm.) high
$10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE
Collection of Ambassador Ti-Tsun Li (1901-1981), and
thence by descent to the present owner.
Compare the carved Longquan vase of similar, but
slightly broader form and of smaller size (32.9 cm.),
in a museum in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, illustrated
in Celadons from Longquan Kilns, Taipei, 1998, p. 259,
no. 244.
明初 龍泉窯青釉刻花大瓶
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