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A GROUP OF FIVE BLUE AND WHITE TEACUPS A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN STANDS
18th century Republic period
Including a pair of inverted bell form painted with a beauty and Each constructed the form of an Eight Immortals table with upright
baby boy in amid garden rocks, the interior rim painted with babao legs, the square top painted in underglaze blue with flower and leaf
decoration; the second pair similarly painted to the first pair, but scrolls framing a shou medallion and also highlighting the double-ring
molded with a stepped foot and concave flaring walls; the fifth cup spacers that form the aprons (firing cracks, repaired).
painted with beauties facing a potted plant on a table (some with 5 1/2 x 7 5/8in (14 x 19.5cm) square
staining, chips); together with a 19th century blue and white saucer
centered with a dragon holding a flaming pearl rendered in iron red US$2,000 - 3,000
and gilt enamel and repeated on the exterior walls (chips, wear). [6]
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A GROUP OF THREE BLUE AND WHITE VESSELS WITH
US$1,000 - 1,500 FIGURAL DECORATION
Late Qing/Republic period
6245 The largest a square-sectioned baluster vase with mock animal
AN ASSEMBLED GROUP OF NINETEEN BLUE AND WHITE head and ring handles, painted with historical figures on the lower
SAUCERS AND SMALL CUPS walls and their biographies above on the waisted neck (chipped);
18th century and later the second a hexagonal planter with canted walls also painted with
Including a pair of saucers with wood grain-patterned rim and male and female historical figures (chipped, lacking drip pan); the last
flower decoration; the second a near pair of saucers decorated with a slender baluster vase of circular section painted with figures in a
butterflies and flowers (one saucer with some iron red wash); the third fenced garden setting (chipped).
pair of saucers showing five floral roundels on a scattered ground 12 1/2 and 11 3/4in (31 and 29.8cm) height of vases
of blossoms; the fourth pair of saucers centered with a lotus plant,
flowering branch and bamboo; the fifth pair of saucers displaying a US$2,500 - 3,500
beauty and baby boy in a garden; the sixth pair of saucers painted
with a band of six beauties separated by flowering blossoms; the 6249
seventh a pair of small teacups similarly painted with six beauties A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE CANDLESTICKS
separated by flowering blossoms; the fifteenth and sixteenth a 18th/19th century
near-matching cup and saucer with beauties seated by a flowering Each of conical form with two drip pans, the upper shaft and the
plant on a table; the seventeenth and eighteenth a near-matching underside of the larger drip pan painted with a phoenix and a dragon
miniature cup and saucer with four leaf-shaped reserves of beauties; amid waves painted on the spreading foot and interior surface of the
the nineteenth as single saucer with a foliate rim (some with chips, larger drip pan; the metal pricket and bands applied to the drip pan
repairs). rims of later date (repaired).
5 1/8 to 2 1/2in (13 to 6cm) diameter of saucers 5in (12.7cm) high
US$1,200 - 1,800 US$2,000 - 3,000
Due to the large number of items in this lot, photographs and
condition reports of individual pieces in the lot will not be available.
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A BLUE AND WHITE RECTANGULAR CENSER WITH
RETICULATED COVER
Thickly molded with a long narrow body raised on four corner feet,
the canted walls painted in a classic lotus flower and leaf scroll
pattern surrounding shou medallions and bats that repeat on the
cover cut with cash-shaped openings and mounted with a bronze
lion finial.
17 1/2in (44.5cm) long
US$3,000 - 5,000
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