A Large 'Longquan' Celadon Barbed Dish, Yuan / Ming Dynasty, 14th / 15th Century

A Large 'Longquan' Celadon Barbed Dish, Yuan / Ming Dynasty, 14th / 15th Century

of shallow form and thickly potted fluted sides corresponding to the everted rim molded with bracket lobes, all radiating from a plain circular well on the interior, thickly applied overall in a deep olive-green glaze pooling to a darker color in the recesses, an unglazed ring on the base burnt orange in the firing. diameter 18 1/2 in., 47 cm. Estimate 30,000—40,000 USD

PROVENANCE: Spink & Son, Ltd, London (until 1986).
Thereafter with the present owner.

NOTE: Two dishes of this type, one slightly larger, are illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, London, 1986, vol. 1, pl. 245. A similarly sized dish from the Edward T. Chow collection was sold in our London rooms, 16th December 1980, lot 328. The same dish was later in the T.Y. Chao collection and was subsequently sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 18th November 1986, lot 27.

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