A CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON BOWL

£10,000 - £12,000

£12,700

A CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON BOWL
PROBABLY SONG DYNASTY

The shallow conical bowl rising from a short straight foot, covered overall in an unctuous blue-green glaze pooling to a deeper blue at the interior well and thinning at the rim, with a silk drawstring bag and a Japanese lacquered wood box, 15.1cm.

Purchased in Japan c.2000.

Conical bowls, such as the lot offered here, were used for the drinking of tea, and the Longquan kilns produced such bowls for both the domestic and export market. See The British Museum, Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, accession no. PDF.231 for a related example dated to the Southern Song Dynasty. Another example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Dynastic Renaissance: Art and Culture of the Southern Song, p.206 no. III-75.

宋（可能）龍泉青釉斗笠碗
來源：2000年購於日本。