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A MIRROR BLACK LONG NECK VASE A ROBIN’S EGG BLUE BOWL WITH GOLDFISH DECORATION
Late Qing/Republic period Xianfeng mark
The waisted neck rising from a globular body with raised string band Of inverted bell form with striping and a circular roundel of goldfish
accenting the shoulder, the rich black glaze applied within the tall swimming amid water weeds drawn in underglaze blue to the interior
foot and the exterior walls where it thins to brown along the rim, the well, the exterior walls displaying a mottled turquoise and purple
colorless glaze visible on the interior surfaces. glaze, and the recessed base bearing the six-character mark in
15 1/8in (38.5cm) high standard script beneath a colorless glaze.
5 1/2in (14cm) diameter
US$800 - 1,200
US$1,000 - 1,500
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A CELADON CRACKLE-GLAZED FOLIATE RIMMED VASE PROPERTY FROM A TEXAS COLLECTION
The flared rim molded into six lobes that continue down the long
neck rising from a short globular body raised on a tall foot, the gray- 6235
green glaze displaying a dense web of craze lines and covering all A TALL AMBER GROUND STORAGE JAR WITH POLYCHROME
surfaces except the iron-washed foot pad (neck cracked). RAISED RELIEF DECORATION
8 1/8in (20.5cm) high Qing dynasty, Shiwan kilns
Of inverted pear form with a cloud collar band above lion heads
US$1,000 - 1,500 applied to the shoulder and paired dragons separated by cranes and
lotus flowers applied above scudding waves that surround the base,
6232 the raised relief picked out in overglaze blue, blue-green and white
AN ANHUA DECORATED AUBERGINE GLAZED DISH enamels against the rich dark amber ground (minor chips, glaze
Qianlong mark degraded).
The slightly everted mouth rim raised atop convex sides incised 24 3/4in (63cm) high
to the exterior in dragons vying for pearls amid smoke and clouds
above a repeating lotus petal band, encircling the flat well centered US$600 - 800
by a front facing dragon and pearl similarly incised, raised atop the
attenuated foot encircling the glazed recessed base bearing an A jar of similar size, decoration and glaze colors, was identified as
incised six-character mark. Shiwan ware, Qing dynasty (GMP 1960-9), by Dr. Eva Strober in
7 3/4in (19.6cm) diameter The Collection of Chinese and Southeast Asian Jars (martaban,
martavanen) at the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, the
US$2,000 - 3,000 Netherlands, p. 51 (available on the internet). See also the example
finished with a white slip ground, ascribed to the 17th century, from
6233 Ujang Pandang, South Sulwesi, in Oriental Ceramics the World’s
TWO YIXING POTTERY VESSELS Great Collections: Vol. 3 Museum Pusat, Jakarta (Japan, 1982), color
Both incised in the Republic era Tiehua Xuan style, one a covered plate 45 and p. 165.
circular box with four discrete interior sections, the exterior bearing
an incised Gengyin date (equivalent to 1950) with an artist signature PROPERTY FROM THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM,
and the underside bearing an impressed Wu Desheng zhi mark; the PORTLAND, OREGON, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE MUSEUM
second a melom form brush washer of darker hued clay and bearing ACQUISITION FUND
the same artist’s incised signature.
7 3/4in (19.6cm) diameter of the first 6236
2 7/8in (7.3cm) height of second A PAIR OF MASSIVE TRADE POTTERY STORAGE JARS
20th century
US$2,000 - 3,000 Each of octagonal section resolving to a circular sectioned neck and
rolled rim raised on a concave base, drawn in yellow slip with birds,
animals and flowering plants beneath a colorless glaze, the fabric
fired to a dark cinnamon brown (minor chips).
28in (71cm) high
US$300 - 500
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