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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND
WALTER F. BROWN
1553
AN UNUSUAL LARGE BLUE AND WHITE
BALUSTER VASE
MING DYNASTY, EARLY 16TH CENTURY
The body is decorated with a broad band of peony
scroll between decorative borders, beneath the tall,
flared neck decorated with cranes in flight amidst
peaches borne on leafy branches and flanked by
simple, curved handles suspending fixed rings.
24Ω in. (62.3 cm.) high, cloth box

$7,000-9,000
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 23 May 1972, lot 133.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 23-24 May 1978, lot
44.
Christie's London, 7 December 1984, lot 894.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San
Antonio, Texas.

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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND
WALTER F. BROWN
1554
A YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE
'GARDENIA' DISH
HONGZHI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN
UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE
CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1488-1505)
The center is decorated with a gardenia spray
bearing two blossoms, below sprays of pomegranate,
lotus, grape and rose in the well, with a frieze of
flower scroll on the exterior, all in shaded tones of
underglaze blue and reserved on a soft lemon-yellow
ground.
10Ω in. (26.6 cm.) diam., cloth box

$12,000-18,000
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27 October 1993, lot 62.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San
Antonio, Texas.
EXHIBITED:
Dallas, The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of
Asian Art, Texas Collects Asia, 12 July-28 September
2008, no. 51.

LITERATURE:
Amy Lewis Hofland and Shiyuan Yuan, Texas Collects
Asia, Dallas, 2008, p. 168, no. 51.

明弘治 黃地青花梔子花果紋盤 雙圈六字楷書款
1553