A CARVED 'LONGQUAN' CELADON-GLAZED 'PEONY' GUAN AND COVER MING DYNASTY, EARLY 15TH CENTURY |

sturdily potted, of wide baluster form swelling generously from a short, slightly tapered foot, the lobed sides freely incised with eight leafing peony blossoms, all above a wide band of stiff upright-leaf lappets, the domed cover with similar fluted and carved decoration encircling the low conical knop, a flowerhead medallion impressed on the underside, covered overall with a thick even glaze of sea-green color, the unctuous bubble-suffused glaze pooling to a deeper green in the recesses, stopping short of the unglazed foot, revealing the pale gray body burnt reddish-orange in the firing (2)

Collection of Edmund Odon Fisher, Esq.
Sotheby's London, 26th June 1973, lot 213.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 21st May 1979, lot 32.
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Chia.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 5th November 1996, lot 651.

The jar leans very slightly to one side, and there is an approx. 0.6 cm wide chip to the foot. The cover has an approx. 2.3 cm wide bruise to the lip. Both the jar and cover have some age appropriate wear and expected minor firing imperfections, including a few short firing cracks to the rim of the jar.
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