Lot 75. A 'Longquan' celadon barbed-rim 'Lotus' dish, Early Ming dynasty. Diameter 11 in., 27.9 cm. Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 USD. Lot sold 10,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's.

stoutly potted, the flaring fluted sides rising to a flat bracket-lobed rim, supported on a short tapering foot, the center impressed with a roundel enclosing a leafy peony blossom, the cavetto freely incised with lotus flowers borne on a leafy stem, covered with a lustrous sea-green glaze thinning at the edges and pooling within the recesses, an unglazed circle on the base burnt orange. 

Note: This dish, with its crisply fluted lines and elegantly bracketed rim, belongs to a distinct type produced at the Longquan kilns during the late 14th and early 15th centuries. A dish of this form and similar decoration is illustrated in Green - Longquan Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2009, cat. no. 30.  A similar example lacking the carved floral motif along the sides, was sold in these rooms, 20th March 2012, lot 37.

Sotheby's. Monochrome, New York, 15 sept. 2015