J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Chinese Ceramics A.D. 400–1400:
Selections from an American Collection
March 19 - 31, 2007
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A LONGQUAN CELADON FOLIATED BOWL
Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1127-1279)
with thinly potted deep fluted sides rising from a small ring foot and flaring to a rim divided into twelve lobes, with six projecting points separated by shallower indentations at the mouth and continuing down the sides, covered with a translucent sea-green glaze with glossy surface, thinning at the mouthrim and over the raised ribs to a pale silvery-gray tone, the glaze continuing over the countersunk base, the edge of the foot unglazed and the exposed stoneware burnt reddish-brown.
Diameter 4 inches (10.2 cm)
A Longquan celadon bowl of similar form excavated in 1978 at Fengcheng, Zhejiang province and now in the Fengcheng City Museum is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji: Song II, Vol. 8 (The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics: Song II), Shanghai, 2000, no. 70, p. 108, with description on p. 259.
Another similar Longquan bowl of this size is illustrated by Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, no. 108, p. 53. Compare also the smaller example illustrated by Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, no. c.173, pl. 91c.
22.
A LONGQUAN CELADON FOLIATED BOWL
Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1127-1279)
Diameter 4 inches (10.2 cm)