Lot 1535. A large Longquan celadon carved dish, Ming dynasty, 15th century, 18 5/8 in. (47 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. Price realised USD 8,125 © Christie's Images Ltd 2016

The dish is thickly potted with shallow rounded sides, and is carved in the interior with flowering tree peony within a barbed petal panel, below a band of undulating peony scroll in the well, all under a glaze of olive-green tone that continues over the foot rim to an unglazed ring on the base burnt orange in the firing. 

Provenance: Private collection, Germany.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art part I, 17 - 18 March 2016, New York