A large Chinese Ming carved Longquan celadon deep bowl, firs...

Hammer

£6,000

A large Chinese Ming carved Longquan celadon deep bowl, first half 15th century, heavily potted, the interior indistinctly carved to the centre with a peony, within a wide border of incised peony scrolls to the cavetto, the exterior carved with peony scrolls, between a band of running leaves and a lower register of leaf lappets, burnt orange ring to base, 33cm diameter, 15.5cm high, hongmu stand, scratches to glaze

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Provenance - UK private collection, 1920s or earlier, thence by family descent.
This collection of late Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain and bronze vessels has been owned by a single Cotswold family for a number of generations dating back to the 1920s or earlier.
The collection was formerly on display at the family home in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, UK before the house was sold in the 1980s. Some interior photos taken c.1982 show a number of the pieces on display in the family house and an inventory undertaken in 1948 by the local Campden auctioneer and valuer Alfred Bower lists many of the items. Extracts of the 1948 inventory are included where they correspond to the relevant lots in the sale.
This bowl is Item no. 354 on the 1948 inventory.

Some tiny unglazed patches and other glaze imperfections in manufacture, some heavy scratching to the glaze to the interior of the at the centre and some other scuffs and scratches to the exterior, some grubbiness to the interior, otherwise in good condition with no restoration, chips or cracks detected. The wood stand is slightly misshapen.