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26 novembre 2019

A biscuit Longquan celadon 'Immortals' jar, guan, Yuan – Early Ming dynasty

A biscuit Longquan celadon 'Immortals' jar, guan, Yuan – Early Ming dynasty

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Lot 80. A biscuit Longquan celadon 'Immortals' jar, guan, Yuan – Early Ming dynasty; 36.8 cm, 14 1/2  inEstimate 100,000 — 150,000 HKD. Lot Sold 812,500 HKD (103,764 USD). © Sotheby's.

robustly potted with a baluster body rising from a gently flared foot to a wide cylindrical neck, the exterior decorated with eight quatrefoil panels in biscuit, each variously depicting one of the Eight Daoist Immortals, above another horizontal register of biscuit panels depicting stylised floral sprays, the rim encircled by chevron and lappet bands, applied overall save for the biscuit panels with a sea-green glaze.

Provenance: Collection of Mrs Albert R. Louis.
Sotheby’s New York, 29th November 1956, lot 312.
Sotheby’s New York, 22nd February 1973, lot 200. 

NoteThe present jar, crisply decorated with impressed biscuit panels, belongs to a renowned type of Longquan celadon wares. Among the famous examples is a covered jar of this size and design from the collection of the Manno Art Museum, but attributed to the late 14th to early 15th century, included in Chinese Arts of the Sung and Yuan Periods, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, 1961, cat. no. 206, and sold at Christie's London, 21st June 2001, lot 94.

The octagonal form of the current jar is reminiscent of the 14th century facetted meiping with eight biscuit panels of Daoist immortals from the Sir Percival David Collection and now in the British Museum, included in Stacey Pierson, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection, London, 2002, cat. no. 35 (PDF.203).

Octagonal vase with immortals and flowers, Yuan dynasty, about AD 1300–1368

 Octagonal vase with immortals and flowers, Yuan dynasty, about AD 1300–1368. Longquan ware, Longquan region, Zhejiang province.Stoneware, porcelain-type, with impressed and partly biscuit-fired decoration with celadon glaze. Height: 24,3 cm. On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (PDF203). © The Trustees of the British Museum

Sotheby's. Ceramics and Jades from the Collection of Sir Quo-Wei Lee, Hong Kong, 28 november 2019

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