Lot 3001. A fine and large barbed Longquan celadon dish, Yuan Dynasty; 61.7 cm., 24 1/4 in. Estimate 1,800,000 — 2,500,000 HKD. Lot sold 6,040,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's.

sturdily potted on a low circular foot, the centre encircled by sixteen equal bracket foliations below a barbed everted rim of corresponding form, covered evenly overall with an unctuous glaze of pale moss green tone, the unglazed base fired to a bright orange

Provenance: Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Estate of Fredric Mueller.
Christie's New York, 1st June 1990, lot 168.

Note: This dish belongs to a distinct group of spectacularly large dishes produced at the Longquan kilns during the 14th and early 15th centuries, when large quantities of wares were made for the Middle Eastern market. Two closely related dishes, in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, are illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pls. 594 and 595; one of slightly smaller size is included in Mayuyama. Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 519; and a third was sold in our New York rooms, 8th May 1981, lot 253. For carved dishes of this type, see one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, included in the exhibition Yuan dai ciqi [Yuan dynasty ceramics], Beijing, 1998, cat. no. 474; another illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. 1, London, 1986, pl. 244; and a third example sold in these rooms, 9th October 2007, lot 1519.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 april 2014