Lot 8083. A Longquan celadon-glazed stem cup, Ming dynasty. Estimate US$ 1,500 - 2,500 (€1,400 - 2,300). Photo: Bonhams.

Thickly molded with a wide, curving well and raised on a tall spreading foot, the interior walls incised with a fluidly drawn lotus flower and leaf scroll pattern that repeats on the exterior below a key-fret band, the stoutly formed foot encircled by a raised string band and deeply hollowed, a well-preserved and lustrous olive green glaze covering all surfaces except the foot pad. 5in (12.6cm) high 

Provenance: Mayuyama & Co., Tokyo, purchased 28 May 1952

Notes: The stem cup appeared during the Yuan period: see Zhu Boqian, Longquan Yao Qing Ci (Celadons from Longquan), Taipei, 1998, nos. 198-201, pp. 217-220. However the olive-green glaze and fluidly drawn lotus and leafy vine motives incised into this cup are more typical of larger Longquan celadon dishes ascribed to the 15th century by Regina Krahl in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, 1986, vol. I, cat. nos. 305 and ff., p. 317.

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