A large Longquan celadon-glazed carved barbed-rim dishEarly 15th century |The body with lobed rounded sides rising from a short tapered foot to a broad everted barbed rim, finely carved on the interior with a double-line medallion enclosing a large gnarled pine tree in a rocky landscape, the lobed cavetto with panels of alternating floral sprigs mirrored on the exterior, the wide rim further incised with a floral scroll, covered overall with a sea-green glaze except for an unglazed ring under the base left in the biscuit and burnt orange. 44cm (17 3/8in) diam.|十五世紀初 龍泉青釉折枝花卉紋棱口大盤|Provenance: Bluett & Sons Ltd., London (label)|來源： 倫敦古董商Bluett & Sons Ltd.（標籤）|The present dish, although made in Longquan, closely follows in form and decoration blue and white porcelain produced in Jingdezhen at the same time. See for example J.A.Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, London, 1981, pl.43; and see also Gugong bowuyuan: Ming chu qinghua ci, Beijing, 2002, pl.40. |Compare with a very similar dish illustrated by R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul: (I) Yuan and Ming Dynasty Celadon Wares, London, 1986, p.228, pl.239.|A similar large celadon barbed-rim dish was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong on 8 October 2013, lot 221; see also another dish but with a peony design, sold at Christie's Hong Kong on 3 June 2015, lot 3216.