A Longquan celadon carved baluster vase. 15th century

Sturdily potted rising from a splayed foot to a high cylindrical neck and trumpet mouth, carved around the exterior with a wide band of chrysanthemum scrolls above a border of stiff upright petals rising from the foot, with three concentric rings encircling the trumpet mouth, covered all over with a thick green glaze, apart from a ring burnt orange in firing around the recessed base (chip). 46.4cm (18¼in) high. Estimate: £10,000 - 12,000 - Unsold.

Footnote: Compare a similar Longquan celadon carved baluster vase dated by inscription to the 5th year of Jingtai (1450-56) from the Percival David Foundation, London, and illustrated by D. Lion-Goldschmidt in Ming Porcelain, London, 1978, p. 245, pl.267.

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