Two celadon-glazed dishes
Yuan/Ming dynasty

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW SOUTH WALES

comprising one with widely flared shallow sides carved on the interior with a central crane in flight encircled by a foliate meander with combed detailing, the glaze of olive-green tone, and a 'Longquan' celadon dish with shallow rounded sides springing from a short tapering foot and rising to a broad everted lipped rim, covered inside and out with a sea-green glaze

(2)
27 cm and 30.5 cm diameter

• Lot Sold SOLD (Hammer Price)

Condition Report

The first dish - a fine hairline crack from the rim to the centre and some fine glaze cracks. The glaze misfired to a brownish tint on one half of the bowl The second dish - surface wear and scratches, three shallow rim chips approx 1 cm to 0.5 cm. The glaze partly misfired to a brownish tone.

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