AN EARLY CHINESE CELADON LONGQUAN STONEWARE BOWL Yuan/Ming, ...

Hammer

£60

AN EARLY CHINESE CELADON LONGQUAN STONEWARE BOWL Yuan/Ming, of plain elegant form. 12 cm x 8 cm. Note: celadon production had a long history at Longquan and related sites, but it was not until the Northern Song (960–1127) period that large-scale production began, and the move of the capital to Hangzhou, close to Longquan, after the start of the Southern Song (1127–1279), was probably important in the great expansion of both quality and production there. Both continued at high levels in the Yuan (1271–1368) and the early part of the Ming (1368–1644) periods. Longquan celadons were an important part of China's export economy for over five hundred years, and were widely imitated in other countries, especially Korea and Japan. Their demise came after they were overtaken in their markets by blue and white porcelain from Jingdezhen.