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8081 PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS

8082 8081
62 | BONHAMS A PURPLE-SPLASHED JUNYAO DISH
Yuan dynasty
The broad and shallow dish with low walls,
supported on a flared foot, covered overall
with a blue-gray glaze thinning at the rim, the
well of the dish decorated with large splash of
pale purple glaze.
9 3/8in (23.8cm) diameter
$5,000 - 8,000

元 鈞窯天藍釉紫斑碟

8082
A LARGE AND RARE LONGQUAN
CELADON-GLAZED DISH WITH
LOBED RIM
Yuan/ early Ming Dynasty,
14th/ 15th Century
Thickly potted and of shallow concave
shape, with fluted walls curving up to a wide,
everted rim, molded with elegant bracket
lobes, surrounding a plain, circular well,
covered all over in a thick, light, olive-green
glaze, the underside with an unglazed ring
burnt orange from firing.
18 1/2in (47cm) diameter
$3,000 - 5,000

元或早明 十四或十五世紀 龍泉窯青釉菱口
大碟

Longquan chargers of such great size
and with elegantly barbed rims are rare.
This charger was likely created at Lishui
prefecture, Zhejiang and during the period,
markets in the Middle East had an enormous
appetite for Longquan wares.

A dish of such impressive size with an
elegantly lobed rim and a restrained,
undecorated interior is rare. One such dish
of 48cm diameter with a lobed rim and an
undecorated well, dated to the early 15th
century, is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese
Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum,
Istanbul: A Complete Catalogue I: Historical
Introductions, Yuan and Ming Celadon Wares,
London, 1986, p. 304, no. 245. Although
four other larger dishes are illustrated ibid.
nos. 240-243, only one has a lobed rim,
and the number of other lobed rim dishes
illustrated ibid., nos. 233-239 are all of smaller
proportions than the present lot.