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TWO BLUE AND WHITE PLAQUES A BLUE AND WHITE OVOID VASE
Late Qing/Republic period Late Qing/Republic period
Of tall rectangular section, both depicting characters from the Thickly molded with a flaring rim, waisted neck and a pair of animal
‘Register of the Peerless’ (Wushuang Pu), the first depicting the head and mock ring handles on the shoulder, the full ovoid body
Eastern Han-era female historian Ban Zhao below a lengthy carefully painted to one side with birds and a fantastic openwork rock
description of her historical contributions inscribed within an open rising amid willow, flowering branches and bamboo and reversed by
traditionally-bound book, the second depicting the Eastern Zhou/ a pair of butterflies.
Western Han elderly dissident to the Qin regime Fu Sheng below a 15 3/4in (40cm) high
stack of books inscribed with an ode to his bravery; mounted within
very large frames. US$1,000 - 1,500
16 1/4in (41.2cm) height of plaques
43 3/4in (110cm) total height of frames 6259
AN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND COPPER RED DECORATED
US$1,000 - 1,500 BOTTLE VASE
Late Qing/Republic period
6257 The garlic-head mouth and waisted neck encircled with various
TWO SKY BLUE GLAZED VASES WITH BLUE AND WHITE decorative bands drawn in underglaze blue while the curving body
LANDSCAPE PANELS displays peony branches in underglaze blue outline and copper red
Yongzheng marks, late Qing/Republic period circles of various sizes forming the hobnail-patterned ground (rim
A near pair, each potted with a circular-sectioned trumpet neck repaired and repainted).
rising from a square-sectioned body with tapering walls raised on a 17 5/8in (44.8cm) high
conforming foot, the walls similarly painted in underglaze blue outline
and wash with figures boating or walking through landscape framed US$1,000 - 1,500
by a pale blue wash also applied to the foot and neck beneath a
colorless glaze that continues on the interior and the recessed base
bearing the six-character mark in seal script.
10 5/8 and 10 1/2in (29.5 and 29cm) high

US$1,500 - 2,500

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