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南宋 龍泉窯青釉八方盤

Provenance:
Priestley & Ferraro Chinese Art, London
Mikiko Miyazaki-Robinson, London
Emmanuel Christofides (1928-2020), Athens and London, acquired from the above on 21 February 1996

Published and Illustrated:
D.Priestley and M.Flacks, A Life in the Company of Song Ceramics, London, 2017, pp.76-77, no.32

來源：
倫敦古董商Priestley & Ferraro Chinese Art
Mikiko Miyazaki-Robinson，倫敦
Emmanuel Christofides (1928-2020)，雅典和倫敦，於1996年2月21日從上處獲得

著錄：
D.Priestley和M.Flacks，《A Life in the Company of Song Ceramics》，倫敦，2017年，第76-77頁，編號32

This dish, with its flat, everted, octagonal rim, reflects the refined elegance of Song dynasty design and is thought to be inspired by contemporary silver and gold prototypes. Longquan celadon dishes of this distinctive shape are exceedingly rare, with only a handful documented. A comparable dish (15.8cm wide) is in the Avery Brundage Collection at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, illustrated by M.Tregear, Song Ceramics, New York, 1982, p.138, no.183. A Guan celadon-glazed octagonal dish, Southern Song dynasty, is in the Qing Court Collection, in the Palace Museum, Taipei (acc.no.故瓷013965N000000000). Another example, paired with a small octagonal bowl, is illustrated by J.J. Lally & Co., Chinese Art: The Szekeres Collection, New York, 2019, no.2, where it is compared to a gold octagonal dish and matching bowl from the tomb of the Southern Song official Zhu Xiyan (1135–1200), illustrated in Zhongxing jisheng: Nan Song fengwu guanzhi Beijing, 2015, p.16, pl.10. A parcel-gilt silver counterpart with a matching bowl is also shown in the same publication, p.27, pl.52. A related Longquan celadon-glazed octagonal dish, but with iron-brown splashes, Yuan dynasty, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Longquan of the World: Longquan Celadon and Globalisation, vol.II, Beijing, 2019, pp.128-129, no.076.

See a related Longquan Guan-type cup and octagonal dish (15.5cm wide), Song dynasty, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29 May 2019, lot 325. Another related Longquan celadon octagonal dish, Southern Song dynasty, was sold at Christie's New York, 25 March 2022, lot 1031.