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Porcelain cup

by Irina
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Celadon cup

Celadon cup

Hi, Peter! Could you help with this celadon cup please. I was told that this Ming dynasties. What is your opinion on it. Thank you.

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celadon cup
by: peter

Hi Irina,
Is the brown foot rim sloping inwards, or does it only look that way in these pictures? If it is, then it is likely a fake. The odd brown color is frequently found on fakes. They make it that way to hide the clay that gives away items as new, presumably

Basically, this cup is apparently copying Longquan celadon, but Longquan celadons of the Ming dynasty were not this shade of green, they were more green-yellowish.
Only Longquan celadons of the Yuan or Song dynasties might have such a glaze, but then the bottom was quite different.
Never mind the crazing inside the stem, this can develop naturally during firing too. What is more important is that stems rarely were glazed inside at the time.
I'm afraid you may have a fake.

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