SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

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A LONGQUAN CELADON 'CHRYSANTHEMUM' CUP
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The bowl has deep, rounded sides carved as chrysanthemum petals that rise from the small ring foot to the scalloped rim and is covered overall with a soft sea-green glaze thinning on the ribs and ending in a line above the edge of the foot to expose the buff ware, the convex base similarly glazed.
3 ½ in. (8.9 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance

Collection of Dickson Reck, Berkeley, acquired in the 1930s or 1940s.
Christie's New York, 22 March 2007, lot 276.

Literature

L. B. Barnes, High Tea: Glorious Manifestations - East and West, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, 2014, no. C5, p. 130.

Exhibited

West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Museum of Art, High Tea: Glorious Manifestations, East and West, 19 February - 24 May 2015, no. C23.

Lot Essay

See B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese ceramics in the Carl Kempe collection, Stockholm, 1965, no. 108, for a Longquan cup of similar shape and glaze. Another similar Longquan cup from the Muwen Tang Collection illustrated in Song Ceramics from The Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1994, no. 66, p. 168, and later sold at Sotheby’s London, 12 November 2003, lot 89. See, also, the Longquan cup of similar shape, but covered with a greenish-grey Guan-type glaze, in the Barlow Collection, illustrated by M. Sullivan, in Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, pl. 91c.

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