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A LONGQUAN CELADON-GLAZED STEM CUP
Ming dynasty
Thickly molded with a wide, curving well and raised on a tall spreading foot, the interior walls
incised with a fluidly drawn lotus flower and leaf scroll pattern that repeats on the exterior below
a key-fret band, the stoutly formed foot encircled by a raised string band and deeply hollowed, a
well-preserved and lustrous olive green glaze covering all surfaces except the foot pad.
5in (12.6cm) high
$1,500 - 2,500
明 龍泉窯青釉高足盃
Provenance
Mayuyama & Co., Tokyo, purchased 28 May 1952
The stem cup appeared during the Yuan period: see Zhu Boqian, Longquan Yao Qing Ci
(Celadons from Longquan), Taipei, 1998, nos. 198-201, pp. 217-220. However the olive-green
glaze and fluidly drawn lotus and leafy vine motives incised into this cup are more typical of
larger Longquan celadon dishes ascribed to the 15th century by Regina Krahl in Chinese
Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, 1986, vol. I, cat. nos. 305 and ff., p. 317.

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