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890 A LONGQUAN CELADON 南宋ǭ龍泉窯青釉洗
BRUSH WASHER
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279) Ϝ源
☆՞Ⅷ藏
紐約
The shallow washer has angled sides that rise from the short foot to
a slightly everted rim. It is covered overall with a glaze of sea-green 藍理捷
紐約
編號
tone that pools to a more intense blue around the well.
5º in. (13.4 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
$15,000-25,000

PROVENANCE:
Private collection, New York.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4721.

Similar Longquan celadon brushwashers are in museum collections
such as the Percival David Foundation, illustrated by W. Watson
and S. Pierson in Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival
David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997, p. 34, col. pl. 284.
See, also, one in the Art Institute of Chicago from the Tyson
Collection, illustrated by Y. Mino and K. Tsiang in Ice and Green
Clouds: Traditions of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis, 1986, pp. 178-
179, no. 71; one in a private Japanese collection, illustrated in
Tokubetsuten: Sensei, bansei to RyĿsen-yį no seiji (Special Exhibition:
Sensei, Bansei and Celadon of Longquan Kiln), Izumi, 1996,
p. 52, no. 49; and one in the Idemitsu Museum, illustrated in
Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, col. pl. 96.
A similar example was sold at Christie's New York, 13 September
2019, lot 1045.

891 A LONGQUAN CELADON 元 明初ǭ十四世紀末 十Ն世紀初ǭ

TRIPOD CENSER 龍泉窯青釉小奩式‐
YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY, LATE 14TH-EARLY 15TH CENTURY
The cylindrical body is raised on three splayed bracket feet and Ϝ源
is incised on the exterior with a double-line band. The censer is ☆՞日本Ⅷ藏
壺中居
東京
covered with a glossy sea-green glaze, with the interior and exterior
base partially unglazed. 松㎒堂
香港
藍理捷
紐約
編號
3¡ in. (8.6 cm.) diam., reticulated silver cover, inner lacquered
box, Japanese wood box
$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE:
Private Japanese collection.
Kochukyo, Tokyo.
Lam & Co., Hong Kong.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4891.

The shape of this censer originates from archaic bronze lian
vessels from the Han dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). Ceramic
vessels of this form are often molded with bow-strings around
the body. A Longquan tripod censer of closely related form,
also decorated with two raised lines, in the collection of the
Sichuan Provincial Museum, is illustrated in Longquan Celadon:
The Sichuan Museum Collection, Macao, 1998, pp. 146-47, no.
47. See, also, an example with triple bow-string bands from the
Linyushanren Collection, sold at Christie's New York, 22 March
2018, lot 527.
(another view)

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