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AN ARCHAISTIC BRONZE GARLIC-MOUTH
‘DRAGON’ BOTTLE VASE
Xuande seal mark, 17th century
The heavily-cast vase supported on a high stepped
spreading foot, rising to a compressed globular body and
tall cylindrical neck with garlic-shaped mouth, a long scaly
dragon coiled around the neck chasing a flaming pearl on
the shoulder. 42cm (16 1/2in) high.
£2,500 - 3,500
CNY23,000 - 32,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

十七世紀 銅蟠龍蒜頭瓶
「宣德」篆書款

Compare with two related bronze bottle vases with
dragons, 16th/17th century, in the Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, illustrated by R,Kerr, Later Chinese
Bronzes, London, 1990, p.42, no.29.

201
A RARE BRONZE ‘PRUNUS’ BOTTLE VASE
Yong bao yong incised three-character mark, 17th/18th
century
Of compressed pear-shaped form rising to the tall neck
with an everted flared rim, decorated in relief with a
blossoming and budding prunus tree issuing from an
undulating ground, raised on a spreading foot decorated
with a continuous foliate scroll, the base incised with
a three-character mark yong bao yong, which may be
translated as ‘Treasure and use forever’.
24.2cm (9 1/2in) high.
200 £3,000 - 5,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

十七/十八世紀 銅梅紋長頸瓶
「永寶用」篆書刻款

Provenance: Christie’s London, 13 May 2008, lot 162

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne
Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2008, no.20

來源：倫敦佳士得，2008年5月13日，拍品編號162

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫
敦，2008年，編號20

A similar but smaller example, 18th century, is illustrated
by R.Mowry, China’s Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert
H.Clague Collection of Later Bronzes 1100-1900, pp.164-
166, no.33. The motif of plum blossoms is typical of
contemporaneous Kangxi ceramics; see for example,
G.Neil, The Communion of Scholars: Chinese Art at Yale,
New York, 1982, pp.84-85, no.36.

202 Y
A BLANC-DE-CHINE OVAL JARDINIÈRE
17th/18th century
With flaring side rising to an inverted lip supported
on four bracket feet, the exterior finely incised with
chrysanthemum, peony, bamboo and prunus amongst
rockwork on the longer sides, and two poetic inscriptions
on the shorter sides, covered overcall in a creamy white
glaze, hongmu stand. 21cm (8 1/4in) wide.
£800 - 1,200
CNY7,200 - 11,000

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

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