RARE CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON-GLAZED TAZZA
YUAN DYNASTY
Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
Auction: 16 May 2025 from 09:00 BST
Description
元 罕見龍泉青釉供盤 帶木盒
composed of a shallow dish with rounded sides and everted rim, supported on a tall foot with raised rib about 2cm below the dish, covered overall with a smooth celadon glaze, leaving only the foot ring unglazed revealing a coarse brick-like clay body, with Japanese wooden box
Dimensions
13cm high x 15.2cm diameter
Provenance
Private collection, London; formerly in a private Japanese collection
倫敦私人收藏；前日本私人收藏
Footnote
For a closely comparable Longquan celadon-glazed tazza with a slightly larger size (13.3cm high) and shape, also dated to the Yuan dynasty, was in the Seligman Collection and bequeathed to the British Museum, registration number: 1973,0726.313. According to the museum curator Jessica Harrison-Hall's research note: “Such dishes were used for food offerings. John Ayers notes that the present tazza was published in 1909 by R. L. Hobson, indicating its early arrival in the United Kingdom. An identical tazza is in the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art, Izumi, Japan.” See Jessica Harrison-Hall, 2001, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, 16:9; and John Ayers, 1964, The Seligman Collection of Oriental Art: Volume II, p.90; D188; pl. LXI
一件與本品相近之龍泉青釉高足供盤，尺寸略大（高13.3公分），形制亦相仿，定年元代，Seligman舊藏，後捐贈予大英博物館，館藏號：1973,0726.313。根據大英博物館策展人Jessica Harrison-Hall的研究：「此類器皿原用於供奉食物。John Ayers指出，現藏之高足供盤曾於1909年由R. L. Hobson發表，顯示其早年即傳入英國。另有一件近例，現藏於日本泉市久保惣紀念美術館。」參Jessica Harrison-Hall著：《Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum》，2001年，頁16:9；以及John Ayers著《The Seligman Collection of Oriental Art: Volume II》，1964年，頁90，編號D188，圖版LXI。