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PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN GENTLEMAN
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A LARGE MOULDED AND CARVED
CELADON ‘PHOENIX TAIL’ VASE
MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
The heavily potted vase is moulded with peony-
scrolls above a band of carved overlapping lotus
petals. The trumpet-form neck is applied with
further peony sprays beneath horizontal ribbed
bands on the underside of the faring mouth rim.
The body is covered overall with a crackled glaze of
sea-green tone with the exception of the unglazed
foot rim.
19º in. (48.9 cm.) high
£8,000-12,000 $12,000-17,000
€9,200-14,000

PROVENANCE
Acquired by the vendor’s father in the early 1930’s,
and then by descent within the family.
明十六/十七世紀 青釉牡丹紋瓶
來源: 歐洲私人珍藏, 於1930年代初
所購

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