A LARGE 'LONGQUAN' CELADON JAR, GUAN, YUAN/MING DYNASTY

• Lot Sold $15,000 (Hammer Price)
• $18,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

stoutly potted of compressed baluster form with wide mouth, the sides carved with four lozenge-diaper ground barbed panels enclosing the characters Fu, Lu, Shou (Good Fortune, Prosperity and Longevity), interspersed with sprays of fruiting peach and flowering chrysanthemum, lotus and peony, between a band of upright petals rising from the foot and a border of foliate scrolls below the upright mouth, applied overall with an unctuous sea-green glaze, falling short of the broad bevelled foot and the mouth rim, and with an unglazed ring on the base of the interior, all burnt orange in the firing, wood stand and cover
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26.5 HIGH, 32CM WIDE

PROVENANCE
Sydney L. Moss Ltd, London, early 1960s

OTHER NOTES
Compare with a jar from the Collection of J.T. Tai & Co. decorated with a dragon and flaming pearl, sold Sotheby's New York, 22nd March 2011, lot 85; and another decorated with chrysanthemums from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, cat. no. 512

CONDITION

The mouth rim with chip approx 2cm and smaller chips 0.5cm and shallow chip 1.5cm , some minor wear and scratches around widest part and three very small roughened scratches at base of one character. The lower part of body (around band of petals) with glaze crackle and two small brown spots where glaze not adhered, several vertical cracks rising from the footrim up the sides approx 13cm and from footrim over base, some small minor chips on footrim

 

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