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TWO CHINESE IMARI WARES A GROUP OF BLUE AND WHITE WARES A PAIR OF CARVED AND BLUE AND
Kangxi Kangxi WHITE DISHES
Comprising: a shell form dish, painted and gilt Comprising: two small oviform jars painted Early 18th century
with a variety of flowering, leafy branches; and with a classic ‘prunus and cracked ice’ Each incised to the interior with a dense
a rosewater sprinkler decorated with scrolling pattern, wood covers; a set of six saucer design of chrysanthemum sprays and
leafy stems of peonies and lilies. dishes painted with scrolling lotus motifs; leafy branches, within an underglaze blue
The sprinkler: 20.5cm (8.1/8in) high (2). a pair of foliate-rimmed dishes each with a geometric pattern border.
scene of two ladies admiring flowers in a 38cm (15in) diam. (2).
£600 - 800 garden, the base with six-character marks.
CNY5,800 - 7,700 The larger dishes: 16.2cm (6 3/8in) diam. (12). £800 - 1,200
HK$7,100 - 9,400 CNY7,700 - 12,000
£600 - 800 HK$9,400 - 14,000
19 * CNY5,800 - 7,700
HK$7,100 - 9,400 Provenance
A BLUE AND WHITE ‘THREE FRIENDS’ An English private collection, acquired prior to
DISH The marks on the foliate-rimmed dishes, 奇 the 1930s, and thence by descent.
Chenghua six-character mark, Kangxi 玉宝鼎之珍 qi yu bao ding zhi zhen, can be
Painted with a planter containing blossoming translated as ‘precious as a treasured ding of
prunus, bamboo and pine beside two smaller rare jade’.
jardinieres of flowering plants, the exterior
with further branches comprising The Three
Friends.
20cm (7.7/8in) diam.

£800 - 1,200
CNY7,700 - 12,000
HK$9,400 - 14,000

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