A CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON 'FIGURATIVE' BOWL
Ming Dynasty
The heavily-potted bowl with deep rounded sides rising from a cylindrical foot, the interior impressed with a medallion enclosing the character gao, surrounded by figures and accompanying inscriptions, all below a key fret band, the exterior with loose leafy sprays beneath a key fret band, the bowl decorated in an olive-green glaze,
15.3cm diameter
Provenance: English private collection formed around 1950s
明 龍泉青釉人物盌
來源:英國私人收藏。
c.f. This bowl depicts Confucius, the poet Li Bai, the beauty Wang Zhaojun, and two officials.
A comparable bowl is illustrated by Regina Krahl in ‘Yuegutang, A Collection of Chinese Ceramics’, Berlin, 2000, p.280. Krahl dates this bowl to the early Ming dynasty, circa 14th/15th century, and states that a similar bowl was excavated from a tomb at Sunqiao, Jingshan county, Hubei province, dated to 1502.
Two bowls of this type are also illustrated by Jessica Harrison-Hall in ‘Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum’, London, 2001, pp. 482-83, nos. 16:52 and 16:53.
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