M5214
£11,500
Description
Chinese celadon glazed chrysanthemum dish, carved in the centre with a tree peony amongst leaves, encircled by chrysanthemum petals beneath a foliate rim, the petal ribs repeated on the underside, covered overall in an even pale celadon glaze, the base glazed except for a burnt red unglazed firing ring.
12 ¾ inches, 32.7 cm diameter.
Early Ming, Yongle/Xuande
Condition
Excellent condition.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From a Scandinavian private collection
- A near identical example in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Longquan of the World, Longquan Celadon and Globalization, Vol. I, A History of Thousands of Years, no. 131, pp. 210/1; a similar dish is illustrated by Regina Krahl and John Ayers in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, A Complete Catalogue I, Yuan and Ming Dynasty Celadon Wares, 196, p. 285; two other similar dishes are illustrated by the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Singapore, in Chinese Celadons and other related Wares in Southeast Asia, nos. 180 & 181, pp. 214/5.
- An almost identical dish from the collection of Dr and Mrs Gregory F Sullivan, New York, was sold by Sotheby’s Parke-Bernet, New York on 11th May 1978, and was later purchased and sold by Marchant on 25th July 2022.
- The glaze on this dish is particularly good, with only slight wear on the well of the interior and the dish retains its original shining lustre.
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