A FINE AND RARE LONGQUAN CELADON BASIN 14TH CENTURY

the exquisitely shaped body with deep rounded sides rising from a short straight foot, applied with a briilliant pale-green glaze trasmuting to a sea-green colour at the rim, save for the unglazed footring under the base burnt brownish-orange during the firing

An old Japanese collection.

This basin is in good condition, with some long surface scratches to the interior, minor scratches to the exterior, slight wear to the glaze on the foot, a minor firing impurity near the interior rim and expected glaze pulls near the rim and expected burst glaze bubbles overall.
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A Longquan celadon bowl of this large size and shape, in the Hakutsuru Fine Art Museum, Kobe, is illustrated in Hakutsuru Eika, Kobe, 1988, pl. 106; another is published in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 1, Geneva, 1999, pl. 48; a slightly smaller bowl of this form, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, was included in the Museum’s exhibition Green-Longquan Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2012, cat. no. 14; and a larger example was sold in our London rooms, 15th June 1982, lot 267. Compare also two bowls of this form richly carved with a lotus scroll, included in National Palace Museum’s exhibition, ibid., cat. nos 18 and 19; and a slightly smaller example carved with floral sprays, from the Higashi Honganji Temple, Kyoto, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1st June 2011, lot 3811.