PROVENANCE: From Audubon, New Orleans Private Collector.

Dimensions: Heigth: 10.7 cm, Diameter: 45 cm

Chinese Ming Dynasty Longquan Porcelain Plate. The plate has a broad wide central interior, thick and round waves lip, raised on correspondence footed ring base slight concave. The interior, exterior are both covered in longquan design color. Sgrafitto with qilin mythical beast, vapors and scrolling ruyi. The Longquan celadons is a type of green-glazed Chinese and were among the finest of a range of celadon wares produced in China, and led stylistic and technical developments. The celadons were produced in a range of shades of colour, centred on olive-green, but extending to greenish blues and browns.The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark greyish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim.

Excellent Condition. The bidder assumes responsibility for ensuring that the condition of the item(s) meets with their satisfaction prior to bidding. Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, and is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. WILLMINGTON GALLERY shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging.