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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
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A FINE SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘THREE ᪺㢫᢬ 㤎⩈ᢴഄ˖ۤॲല➭ 㢴२Վಧ᜷ᕋᢎ
FRIENDS OF WINTER’ JAR
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YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735) 㲞ᳰ⼖༛ᬘ卿 ჺ ᝲ ᚚ卿ᐽ৅ ⽚
The high-shouldered, tapering body is finely decorated with one जࣻ⩠ݦ։ཨ༿㖅ཎ⎏㫇᫈㬪Ɽཎ⧉卿Ӭཌ㖊㢙ᙻ +PIO "MFYBOEFS 1PQF
young and one mature pine tree with widely spreading branches ⶬ卿Ƕ1PSDFMBJOT JO UIF 'SJDL $PMMFDUJPOǷ卿✄ ݺ卿⡥⡙卿 ჺ卿
that partially obscure two slender prunus trees, with bamboo 㮰卿⤔⽚ Ǯ 卻 ݩߎ㵶卼厎औӬ։卻 ݩߎ㵶卼ἃ഍ᭆ᧊
growing in their midst, the decoration representing the 'Three Ⅷ⻦卿㖊ᙻࠫⰮ׉ⶬǶԋஇ᫓ջ㪃≢㦶㐃Ƿ卿✄ ݺ卿झ࢈卿 ჺ卿
Friends of Winter' (prunus, pine and bamboo), all below a narrow 㮰ǯऔᝳӬ⊶ഌ׾ຽ卻 ݩߎ卼卿 ჺ ᝲ ᚚᙻ⡥⡙צ೥ᇑ
scroll border of detached clouds on the short, waisted neck. ᐽ㐈卿ᐽ৅ ⽚ǯ
3‚ in. (8 cm.) high, box
HK$500,000-800,000 US$65,000-100,000
PROVENANCE
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2 May 1995, lot 62
Several jars of this design and small size are known including a pair
illustrated by John Alexander Pope, Porcelains in the Frick Collection,
vol. 7, New York, 1974, p. 69, nos. 124 and 125 (5.4 cm. high); another
smaller example (6.2 cm. high) in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection
illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 5, Taipei,
1991, p. 90; and a slightly larger jar (8.9 cm.) sold at Christie's New
York, 22-23 March 2012, lot 2023.

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