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Property from The Daikomyo-ji | 大光明寺收藏

A Longquan celadon 'lotus' bowl, Southern Song dynasty | 南宋 龍泉青釉蓮瓣盌

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October 9, 03:24 AM GTNN

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180,000 - 220,000 HKD

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Property from The Daikomyo-ji

A Longquan celadon 'lotus' bowl,

Southern Song dynasty

大光明寺收藏

南宋 龍泉青釉蓮瓣盌


Japanese wood box


12.9 cm

Passed down in Japan since medieval t.mes s, and thereafter in the collects ion of the Daikomyo-ji temple.


自中世紀於日本傳世,後入藏於京都大光明寺

For related bowls attributed to the Southern Song dynasty and excavated in Liaoning from the Jinyucun Hoard, now in the Liaoning Museum, see Song Yun: Sichuan Yao Cang Wenwu Jicui [The Charm of Song: Cultural Artefacts from Hoards in Sichuan], Beijing, 2006, pp. 30-33. See also a related bowl published in the Special Exhibition: Sensei, Bansei and Celadon of Longquan Yao, Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art, Izumi, Osaka, 1996, cat. no. 45; another example complete with its cover, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang collects ion, vol. 1, London, 1994, pl. 546; and a third, formerly in the collects ion of Dr Carl Kempe, first sold in our London rooms, 5th November 2008, lot 530, and again in these rooms, 29th April 2022, lot 3693.