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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘QILIN’ SLEEVE VASE A FINE YELLOW-GLAZED OVOID JAR
17TH CENTURY SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG
the tall cylindrical body tapering to a waisted neck, boldly rising from a slightly splayed foot to rounded shoulders,
painted with a large scaly qilin seated on its haunches, a narrow waisted neck, and lipped rim, entirely covered in
looking back with flowing mane, ruyi-shaped nose and mouth a vibrant egg-yolk-yellow glaze, the base similarly glazed
agape, surrounded by a balustraded garden with pierced and incised with a six-character seal mark within a double
rockwork and banana trees, a band of stylized leaf tips square, wood stand (2)
encircling the rim Height 9¼ in., 23.5 cm
Height 12 in., 30.5 cm
PROVENANCE
PROVENANCE Collection of Earl Morse (1907-1988).
J.J. Lally & Co., New York. Marchant, London, 31st March 1999.
$ 20,000-30,000 $ 30,000-50,000

十七世紀 青花芭蕉麒麟圖筒瓶 清道光 黃釉罐
《大清道光年製》款
來源：
藍理捷，紐約 來源：
Earl Morse (1907-1988) 收藏
馬錢特，倫敦，1999年3月31日
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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘LANDSCAPE’ TRAY
MARK AND PERIOD OF JIAQING
of rectangular form with canted corners, the shallow 81
straight sides raised on four bracket feet, painted with a
lush landscape of rolling hills and tall trees overlooking a
79 riverbank with a pagoda near an arched stone bridge, two
figures traversing the bridge and another two by a grove
of trees, a poem at the upper right corner, the inner walls
decorated with fruit sprays, the exterior with medallions of
‘the three friends of winter’ reserved on a diaper ground, the
base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue
Width 14½ in., 36.8 cm
PROVENANCE
Marchant, London.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29th-30th April 1997, lot 640. 82

EXHIBITED A GUAN-TYPE OVOID JAR
Nineteenth Century Mark and Period Porcelain, S. Marchant QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY
& Son, London, 1991, cat. no. 3.
the elongated rounded body narrowing at the base and
Compare a similar tray with the same poem, from the sweeping into a waisted neck and galleried rim, covered in a
collection of Richard Mare Esq., sold by Sotheby’s at Much pale crisp blue-green glaze, the base similarly glazed, wood
Hadham Hall, 30th September 1980, lot 275. stand (2)
Height 14 in., 35.5 cm
$ 10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE
清嘉慶 青花山水圖詩文長方倭角托盤 J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 14th September 1999.
《大清嘉慶年製》款
$ 10,000-15,000
題識：
溪頭暫袖垂綸手 野外閒來放鶴船 清十八 / 十九世紀 仿官釉罐
80 屋後西山歸路近 待人先立草堂前 竹林主人 來源：
印文：竹林
藍理捷，紐約，1999年9月14日
來源：
馬錢特，倫敦
香港蘇富比1997年4月29至30日，
編號640
展覽：
《Nineteenth Century Mark and
Period Porcelain》，馬錢特， 82
倫敦，1991年，編號3

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