Lot 100
LONGQUAN CELADON RETICULATED WARMING BOWL
MING DYNASTY
Auction: 15 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
明 龍泉青釉鏤空花卉紋溫碗
the heavily-potted bowl of hollowed and double-walled construction, with deep rounded exterior and the interior a shallow bowl, the exterior freely carved in openwork with flowers in tendrils, revealing the underside of the inner bowl, the centre of the interior carved with a large flower blossom encircled by a band of leafy tendrils on the cavetto, covered overall with a rich olive-green glaze, leaving only the base with an unglazed disc, revealing the burnt orange body
Dimensions
16cm diameter
Footnote
Note: a Ming dynasty Longquan celadon warming bowl with comparable reticulated design was sold at Christie's New York, 17 March 2017, lot 1171; another warming bowl with carved decoration on the exterior and dated to the early Ming dynasty was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 18 December 2020, lot 1011.