J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
MenuPast Exhibition
Early Chinese Ceramics: An American Private Collection
March 28 - April 16, 2005
56.
A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON BOWL
Yuan/Early Ming Dynasty, A.D. 14th Century
with deep rounded sides rising to a barbed rim, the interior carved with a peony bloom and surrounded around the well by a design of waves separated into panels, below a band of paired classic scrolls, the exterior freely carved with a continuous landscape scene including a fisherman in a flat-bottom boat on a tranquil lake, covered overall with a bright sea-green glaze, the unglazed circle on the base burnt orange in the firing.
Diameter 8 7⁄8 inches (22.5 cm)
Both the form and the design of this bowl are very rare.
Another bowl of this type in the Palace Museum, Beijing, with a similarly carved landscape scene around the exterior below a classic scroll rim border, and with a diaper rim border inside, is illustrated in Longquan Qingci (Longquan Celadon), Beijing, 1966, pl. 59.
Compare also related bowl of slightly smaller size in the Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, rev. ed., London, 1997, p. 45, no. 274. The same bowl was exhibited in Venice in 1954 and illustrated by Dubosc in Settimo Centenario di Marco Polo, Mostra d’Arte Cinese, Venice, 1954, no. 442.
元/明早 龍泉刻花山水人物紋碗 徑 22.5 厘米
