A fine and large Longquan celadon dish, China, 15th century. Estimate 3000/5000 €. Sold 4.500 €. Photo Nagel

the well-potted body raised on a slightly tapered foot, finely carved to the interior with a peony and leaves covered with a lustrous glaze of soft olive-green tone thinning to a paler tone at the rim. D. 42,7 cm. Firing imperfection to rim otherwise good condition

Property from an European private collection

Note: Vessels of large form and extremely fine quality, were made in the Longquan kilns from the late 14th century onwards under the supervision of and to the order of the Ming court. The preference was for large-sized display vessels such as the present example with carefully stamped, molded, incised or carved designs that were often related to painted designs on contemporaneous blue and white porcelain pieces - For related longquan examples, compare a very large Longquan celadon dish of circular shape decorated with grapevines, and another very large dish of barbed outline decorated with lychee sprays, from the collection of the Topkai Museum, Istanbul, illustrated in Ryoichi Fujioka and Gakuji Hasebe, Ming Dynasty, Ceramic Art of the World, vol. 14., Tokyo, 1976, cat. nos. 130 and 131

NAGEL. "Asian Art". Sale 722, 06/06/2015