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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION For a slightly larger barbed dish with radially-fluted cavetto but
incised with a more cursorily incised lotus flower, see John
105 Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine,
A LARGE BARBED, MOLDED AND CARVED LONGQUAN Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, 1956,
CELADON ‘PEONY’ CHARGER p. 155, pl. 121:29.617. Another of almost identical size with
Early Ming Dynasty, late 14th/early 15th Century impressed peony at the center, rather than incised like ours, see
Incised at the center with a large peony flowerhead borne on a thick T. Misugi, Chinese Porcelain Collections in the Near East, Topkapi
stem with dense foliage all within incised double lines and further and Ardebil, Volume Two, (The Ardebil Shrine Collection), Hong
molded at the cavetto with petals spreading out to the everted barbed Kong University Press, 1981, p. 320, no. A232.
rim, the exterior with further molded petals, all under an olive-green
celadon glaze which continues over the foot rim and the base, a large See also an important barbed dish from the Mughal Royal
single unglazed ring for firing to the base. Household, 1657 inventory, also with tree peony at the center
15in (38.1cm) diameter and a fluted cavetto, which sold at Sotheby’s, Hong Kong,
3 October 2013, lot 221.
$3,000 - 5,000

明早期 十四世紀晚期/十五世紀早期 龍泉青釉牡丹纹花口盤

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