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A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON-GLAZED
YEN YEN VASE
16th century
The foot bordered with a row of upright lappets
rising to a bulbous body delicately carved around
the upper body with scrolls of blossoming peonies,
the neck similarly decorated below a series of
concentric rings encircling the trumpet mouth,
covered overall with a sea-green glaze, the footrim
left unglazed exposing the buff ware burnt orange in
the firing, Japanese wood box.
44.5cm (17 1/2in) high (2).
£25,000 - 40,000
HK$290,000 - 470,000
CNY240,000 - 390,000
十六世紀 龍泉青釉牡丹纏枝紋鳳尾尊
Compare a related Longquan yen yen vase, 16th
century, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei,
illustrated by Tsai Mei-fen, ed., Green - Longquan
Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2009, pl.83.
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