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A BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURAL WENCHANG
AND ACOLYTES GROUP
Late Ming dynasty
Finely modelled with the God of Literature and an
entourage of four figures on rockwork, Wenchang
wearing his scholar’s robe and high hat seated to
the centre beside Kuixing, the God of four stars,
and Zhuyi, the distributor of examination results,
above Baite, the horse of Wenchang, with bridle
and trappings flanked by two attendants, one of
whom holds a book and the other a ruyi sceptre,
all covered in a creamy-white glaze.
21cm (8 1/4in) high.
£4,000 - 6,000
CNY36,000 - 54,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

明晚期 德化窰白釉文昌帝君及隨侍像

Provenance: Christie’s London, 17 February 1975,
lot 131
A French private collection
Sotheby’s Paris, 9 June 2011, lot 47

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Anthony
du Boulay, Christie’s Pictorial History of Chinese
Ceramics, Oxford, 1984, p.184, pl.5.
Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London,
2011, no.29

來源：倫敦佳士得，1975年2月17日，拍品編號131
法國私人舊藏
巴黎蘇富比，2011年6月9日，拍品編號47

出版著錄：Anthony du Boulay，《Christie’s 193
Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics》，牛
津，1984年，頁184，圖版編號5
Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2011
年，編號29

A similar figural group, circa 1690, is illustrated
by P.J.Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, London, 1969,
pl.73.A.

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A RARE BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURAL GROUP
18th century
Finely modelled with three gentlemen with long
queues around a square table and two stools, one
holding a long pipe, another with his hat on a stool,
all supported on a raised platform relief-moulded
with a dragon within a cartouche.
14cm (5 1/2in) high.
£800 - 1,200
CNY7,200 - 11,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

十八世紀 德化窯白釉人物像

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