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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
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A PAIR OF SMALL BLUE AND WHITE CANDLE HOLDERS A PAIR OF SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ CUPS
18TH CENTURY 18TH CENTURY
Each holder is delicately decorated to the domed foot with a scrolling band of Each cup is decorated in pencil style with a pair of Ming-style fve-clawed
composite fowers connected by leafy vines executed with stippled accents striding dragons separated by a cruciform trailing cloud scroll. Each base has
in imitation of the ‘heaping and piling’ efect. The shoulder is encircled with an apocryphal Chenghua mark.
a scroll band below a stif leaf band to the cylindrical neck which supports a 2¬ in. (6.5 cm.) diam.
galleried mouth rim. Each base has fve small apertures.
2√ in. (7.2 cm.) diam. (2)
£4,000-6,000 $5,700-8,400
(2)
€4,600-6,900
£6,000-8,000 $8,500-11,000
€6,900-9,200
清十八世紀 青花五爪龍紋杯一對
清十八世紀 青花花卉紋小燭臺一對
來源: 私人珍藏

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