Longquan Style Celadon Conical Bowl

This lovely earthenware bowl from the early Ming dynasty (1368-1644) is cloaked in an allover celadon glaze with smooth texture and an opaque, clouded finish. Once used daily for foo...

A Chinese Song period celadon glazed bowl. Petal form rim and hand-carved decoration to the interior. Really nicely thinly potted example with cra...

A Chinese Song period celadon glazed bow, with hand-carved decoration to the interior. Really nicely thinly potted example with craquelure due to age. P...

20th century Chinese celadon porcelain rice bow in the style of the Song dynasty. Celadon or greenware are glazed in the jade green color.          

This is a very old interesting Chinese stoneware Longquan Celadon bowl or plate with incised decoration, which we date to the Yuan Dynasty, circa 1300. The bowl is well potted on a low foot.  The bowl is an olive green colour having a celadon glaze with incised decoration to its centre of what looks like a flower stem and additionally three incised string lines to the outer wall. Unglazed parts fire to a terracotta brown colour as with the base section The piece is unmarked but for similar pieces see the superb book: Chinese Ceramics by He Li published by Thames & Hudson, 1996; pages 164 to 184. NOTES Longquan is a city in South west China. These wares were produced over a long time period from 959 to 1550; which covers the Northern Song, Southern Song...

This lovely earthenware bowl from the early Ming dynasty (1368-1644) is cloaked in an allover celadon glaze with smooth texture and an opaque, clouded finish. Once used daily for foo...

An antique Korean ceramic tea bowl with celadon glaze from Goryeo dynasty, circa 12th century. The thin-walled stoneware bowl was potted delicately with...

This is a very old interesting Chinese Export stoneware Longquan Celadon bowl, which we date to the early Ming or later Yuan Dynasty, circa 14...

In China, the term qingci "青瓷" (literally meaning blue-green porcelain) is used to designate ceramic objects of gray-green color, with the first character representing blue or blue-green color "青". Various epithets were used to describe this color: "heavenly azure" "天青" (tian qing), "dusty blue" "粉青" (fen qing), or "after the rain passes, the sky becomes blue" - yu guo tian qing "雨過天青", which idiomatically means the arrival of good times after troubles. The characteristic gray-green color is obtained by adding iron oxide to the glaze. During the chemical reaction in reduction firing (i.e., without oxygen access) of the ceramics, the iron contained in the glaze acquires a blue, gray, or greenish hue. During the Song (宋), Yuan (元), and Ming (明) dynasties, the art of Chinese celadon ceramics...

A Large Chinese Celadon Crackle-Glazed Bowl (A/F), Qing Dynasty, 18th Century Description: The bowl is covered in a celadon glaze suffused with a complex network of light and dark c...