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
18.
A LONGQUAN CELADON JARLET AND COVER
Song Dynasty, A.D. 12th-13th Century
of well potted compressed globular form, the steeply rounded plain sides covered inside and out with a lustrous blue-green glaze, the round concave base and upturned lip both unglazed revealing the pale gray stoneware body fired reddish-brown at the margin of the glaze, the domed cover lightly moulded on top with twin lotus blossoms and a bud sprouting above a wide lily pad, all under a matching blue-green glaze.
Diameter 2 3⁄4 inches (7 cm)
A similar Longquan celadon jarlet moulded with a peony spray on the cover is illustrated by Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, no. 103, p. 52.
