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JARDINIÈRE EN GRÈS CÉLADON LONGQUAN DÉBUT DE LA DYNASTIE MING |

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 EUR
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Description

  • 22,5 cm, 8 7/8  in. 
les côtés arrondis peu profonds, les bords ourlés vers l'intérieur, reposant sur trois courts pieds en forme de tête d'animal, le décor moulé à l'extérieur d'une frise de huit trigrammes entre deux frises de cabochons, l'onctueuse glaçure vert de mer laissée en réserve au centre et s'arrêtant autour d'une base arrondie en ressaut en dessous, socle en bois (2) 

Provenance

Collection of Edward T. Chow.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16th December 1980, lot 315.
Acquired 16th December 1980.
Christie's London, 10th June 1996, lot 85.
Collection of L.A. Basmadjieff (1911-2000).
Thence in the family by descent.

Condition

There is light overall wear to the glaze on the interior and exterior of the bowl and scattered glaze impurities. The centre of the inside unglazed and with a moulded design. The centre of the base unglazed.
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Catalogue Note

A very similar censer decorated with the Eight Trigrams from the collection of Carl Kempe, is illustrated in Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 65, fig. 157.