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A FAHUA ENAMELED BARREL FORM GARDEN SEAT TWO SANCAI ENAMELED STONEWARE TRADESCANT JARS
Ming dynasty Guangdong or Fujian kilns, circa 1600
The convex walls molded along the top and base slightly raised Each similarly molded with six-leaf flowers issuing from leaf scrolls
bands painted with clouds in turquoise, yellow and lavender with picked out in yellow and aubergine against the leaf green glaze
black outlines against the dark blue enamel ground, the replacement covering the compressed ovoid body, five leaf-shaped loops on the
top of similar blue enamel (altered, repaired crack). shoulder and the short finished with a rolled rim, the foot pad and
13 1/2in (34.5cm) high base left unglazed (old chips, small areas of retouching).
12 5/8in (32cm) high
US$3,000 - 5,000
US$1,000 - 1,500
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A SU-SANCAI GLAZED CERAMIC FIGURE OF GUANYU The jars form part of a small group of surviving jars named after the
Ming dynasty botanist Sir John Tradescant (d. 1629), who acquired one such jar,
Dressed in an official’s bonnet and dragon robe that partially covers given to Elias Ashmole in 1659 and then donated to the Ashmolean
his martial armor as he sits upon a faceted rock support, the clothing Museum, Oxford, which opened in 1683. For an example in the
picked out in turquoise, purple and yellow enamels, the reverse and Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, see Eva
the concave base left unglazed (repaired and retouched). Strober, Ming Porcelain for a Globalized Trade (Stuttgart, 2013), cat.
13 1/2in (34.2cm) high no. 40, p. 132-133 (37cm high. Other examples are preserved the
collection of the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University (1961.27)
US$1,000 - 1,500 and the Museum Pusat, Jakarta (27cm high).

PROPERTY FROM A TEXAS COLLECTION

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TWO SANCAI GLAZED POTTERY STORAGE JARS AND AN
ASSOCIATED LID
Ming dynasty, 16th/17th century
Each showing yellow and aubergine enamels on a leaf green ground:
the first jar impressed with a large peony flower and leaf scroll design
below a cloud collar lappet band on the shoulder that appears on
the associated lid with lotus bud finial (both extensively repaired and
retouched); the second jar applied in high relief with opposing pairs
of playful fu-lions chasing ribbon-tied fabric balls amid incised cloud
scrolls below a band of cloud collar lappets on the shoulder (old
chips, degraded glaze). [3]
12 1/8 and 12 7/8in (30.7 and 32.8cm) height of jars
15 1/2in (39.5cm) height of first jar with lid

US$800 - 1,200

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