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A LONGQUAN CELADON AND BISCUIT GROTTO

MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY

    Price Realised USD 21,250
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    A LONGQUAN CELADON AND BISCUIT GROTTO

    MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY

    Price Realised USD 21,250
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    Price Realised USD 21,250
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    A LONGQUAN CELADON AND BISCUIT GROTTO
    MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY
    The figure of Guanyin is left in the biscuit and shown seated on a ledge within a grotto framed by scrolling clouds issuing from the moon above.
    9 ½ in. (24.2 cm.) high

    Provenance
    Michael D. Stevenson (1947-2011) Collection.
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    Compare a shrine of larger size in the Illustrated Catalogue of the Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics, II, Tokyo, 1990, p. 20, no. 520, and another illustrated in Porcelains from the Tianjin Municipal Museum, Hong Kong, 1993, no. 68. See, also, the two shrines of this type and comparable size sold at Christie's, one in New York, 19 September 2013, lot 1285, the other in Hong Kong, 28 November 2012, lot 2285.
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