A rare 'Longquan' celadon-glazed foliate-rimmed 'floral' bowl, Ming dynasty | 明 龍泉窰青釉菱口盌

Collection of Marie Vergottis (1914-1999).

Marchant, London, 6th October 2010.

Strauss Collection.

Christie's Paris, 10th December 2021, lot 728.

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Marie Vergottis (1914-1999) 收藏

馬錢特，倫敦，2010年10月6日

Strauss收藏

巴黎佳士得2021年12月10日，編號728

The present bowl is rare on account of its form and decoration. The lobed exterior is decorated with upright scrolling branches while the interior is carved with radiating petals encircling a central flowerhead. Dishes with similar decoration to the interior of the present bowl are more well known. See one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Tianxia Longquan: Longquan qingci yu quanqiu hua / Longquan of the World: Longquan Celadon and Globalization, vol. 1, Beijing, 2019, cat. no. 152; another in the collection of Ng Seng Hiok, included in Chinese Celadons and Other Related Wares in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Singapore, 1979, cat. no. 228; and five illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. I, London, 1986, pls 402-404. Compare a stem cup of related form in the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, and included in Chinese Ceramics: The Wong Collection, Phoenix, 1982, cat. no. 29.