A rare Longquan celadon Guan-type dish with foliate rim, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
Lot 844. A rare Longquan celadon Guan-type dish with foliate rim, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279); 6¼ in. (16 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 10,000 - USD 15,000. Price realised USD 56,250. © Christie's Images Ltd 2014
The dish has a wide, everted, barbed petal-shaped rim, and is covered in a crackle-suffused glaze of sea-green color that thins on the edges, which also covers the interior of the foot and base.
6¼ in. (16 cm.) diam.
Provenance: Alfred E. Guntermann (1943-2013) Collection.
Note: Mr. Guntermann was an enthusiastic and passionate New England collector, with a particular interest in porcelain of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Included here is an interesting and varied group of different types of wares, from unusual Longquan celadon wares from the Southern Song dynasty, rare blue and white wares from the Ming dynasty, exuberantly painted blue and white and famille verte porcelains from the Kangxi period, and finely painted mark-and-period porcelains of the Qing dynasty.
Christie’s. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 – 19 September 2014, New York, Rockefeller Plaza
