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2304 PROPERTY FROM A CALIFORNIA COLLECTOR
TWO UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND CELADON GLAZED
BALUSTER VASES 2308
19th century A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN STORAGE JAR, GUAN
The first finished with a cupped rim, painted in cobalt blue with a 16th/17th century
rooster perched on a rock amid banana and flowering peony, the Of elongated ovoid form, its thick walls painted in bright cobalt
openwork handles similarly colored and the gray-green glaze of hues with floral cartouches and clouds at the waisted neck, cranes
fairly even color (hairline crack along rim); the second displaying in clouds along the rounded shoulder and a continuous garden
similar handles but a flared rim, painted with One Hundred Antiques setting around the body peopled with two boys playing a board
beneath a glaze unevenly fired from pale greenish-white to olive game observed by a seated scholar and standing scholar nearby
green (hairline crack to neck). summoning his young attendant, all above an overlapping flower
22 7/8 and 22 5/8in (58 and 57.5cm) high petal band along the flared rim, the celadon-tinged glaze covering all
$1,000 - 1,500 surfaces except the wide foot pad and recessed base.
15 3/4in (40cm) high
2305 $5,000 - 7,000
A BLUE AND WHITE SWATOW WARE DISH
Late Ming dynasty PROPERTY FROM A COLORADO PRIVATE COLLECTION
Potted in shallow inverted domical section, the interior surfaces adorned
in radiating floral panels encircling the bird and flower roundel centering 2309
the interior well, the exterior sides unadorned, the partially glazed A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE GARDEN STOOLS OF
recessed base and foot displaying typical kiln flaws (prominent crack). OCTAGONAL SECTION
14 1/2in (37cm) diameter Qianlong period
$1,000 - 1,500 Each of barrel form cut with cash-patterned openings to the top and
sides surrounded by fields of peony flowers and leafy scrolls, the
2306 upper and lower walls painted with cloud collar reserves in alternation
A BLUE AND WHITE DISH with raised circular bosses (one stool repaired).
18th century 19 1/2in (49.5cm) high
The slightly everted mouth rim surrounding a shallow cavetto and wide $3,500 - 5,000
well, all raised atop a high foot rim, the interior surfaces covered in a
dense ground of floral blooms, the sides displaying simply-rendered For an octagonal-sectioned garden seat of the same size and shape
opposing floral sprigs (kiln flaws). but with a classic lotus flower and leaf scroll pattern replacing the
14 1/4in (36.2cm) diameter peonies on the pair in this lot, see Wang Qinglu, Ming Qing Ci Cui
$1,000 - 1,500 (Ming and Qing Ceramic Group), 2006, no. 096 (49cm high, also as
Qianlong period).
PROPERTY FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE COLLECTOR
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SAN FRANCISCO COLLECTION
2307
A GROUP OF FOUR BLUE AND WHITE WARES 2310
18th/19th century A MASSIVE BLUE AND WHITE LIDDED JAR
The first a stick neck globular vase adorned in dragon and cloud Late Qing/Republic period
motifs surmounted by a metal alloy mouth and fitted lid; the second, Of soldier jar form comprised of a domical lid surmounted by a later-
possibly made for the Southeast Asian market, a similar vessel added gilt lion dog finial, the ovoid body covered in a continuous
surmounted by a metal alloy neck and mouth; the third a cylindrical figural tableau, all raised atop an unglazed base (significantly restored).
brush pot, likely cut down from a larger piece and stabilized by a thin 27 1/2in (70cm) high
silver band encircling the mouth, the exterior surfaces covered in a $1,500 - 2,500
continuous tableau of pine and bamboo; the fourth a significantly
restored/modified teapot, now lacking lid, spout and handle, the sides
covered in calligraphic decoration and bearing a Chenghua mark to
the recessed base.
8 1/2in (21.5cm) height including mounts of the first and tallest
$1,000 - 1,500
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