Rare Large Antique Celadon Bowl or Jardinière

Little plate from my collection, now on sale after 35 yeas and never exibited to the public. Simply elegant for any useon any elegant table. See all the others published under my na...

Little plate from my collection, now on sale after 35 years and never exhibited to the public. Simply elegant, for any use on any elegant table. See all the others published under my...

O/3201 - What a beautiful simple ancient ceramic! It's a Chinese brazier, sober and elegant. I think that may be more ancient, but I don't know. It was...

Shaped antique oval Chinese plate from my private collection: simply elegant, for any use on any table. It's one of my private collection, about 35 years...

Chinese Celadon footed centerpiece, 19th century.

Antique Sawakhalok Celadon Bowl, Thailand 14th/15th century. A sturdily potted wheel thrown stoneware bowl with everted rim and flattened lip. The deep cavetto has an upper decorativ...

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

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...