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ENAMELED WARES PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
Lots 6267-6346 6267
A GROUP OF FOUR MATCHING WUCAI ENAMELED
6267 PORCELAIN COVERED FOOD WARMERS WITH LINERS
Guangxu six-character marks and of the period
6268 Each molded as a full-bellied tripod with a pair of loop handles,
fitted with a conforming liner and a domed cover: the tripod and
6269 cover finely decorated with two dragons amid flower sprays chasing
flaming pearls, divided by two descending phoenixes below a narrow
90 | BONHAMS band of the Eight Buddhist Emblems interspersed with ruyi heads,
both displaying the six-character mark in underglaze blue standard
script; the outside edge of the liner accented with gilt striping and the
underside displaying the same mark in iron red (one cover with chip
and hairline crack).
6 7/8in (17.5cm) high
8 1/4in (21.2cm) width across the handles
US$2,000 - 3,000
6268
A PAIR OF WUCAI ENAMELED COVERED FOOD WARMERS
WITH LINERS
Guangxu six-character marks and of the period
Each molded as a full-bellied tripod with a pair of loop handles,
fitted with a conforming liner and a domed cover: the tripod and
cover finely decorated with two dragons amid flower sprays chasing
flaming pearls, divided by two descending phoenixes below a narrow
band of the Eight Buddhist Emblems interspersed with ruyi heads,
both displaying the six-character mark in underglaze blue standard
script; the outside edge of the liner accented with gilt striping and the
underside displaying the same mark in iron red.
6 7/8in (17.5cm) high
8 1/4in (21.2cm) width across the handles
US$1,200 - 1,800
6269
TWO WUCAI ENAMELED JARS WITH FIGURAL DECORATION
Late Qing/Republic period
The taller jar painted primarily in a famille verte palette with figures
and animals from Daoist and Buddhist popular mythology, the
underglaze blue limited to striping along the neck and the triangle
band above the unglazed base (firing cracks, chipped); the shorter
jar showing washes of variegated cobalt blue in the garden rocks
combined with polychrome-painted flowers along the waisted neck
and the large faceted rocks in the landscape surrounding a colorfully
dressed official travelling on horseback with his retinue across the
bulging walls, the base also unglazed (minor glaze flaws).
12 3/8 and 10 5/8in (31.5 and 27cm) high
US$1,200 - 1,800
6270
TWO TRANSITIONAL STYLE JARS WITH WUCAI DECORATION
Late Qing /Republic period
The first molded with a wide mouth and short neck painted with a
garden rock and flowering branches above a continuous scene along
the full ovoid walls of cavalry arriving at a city gate and reversed by a
message being delivered to an official seated amid male and female
attendants, the foot and recessed base left unglazed; the second
with the narrower mouth and neck displaying garden rocks and
flowers above another martial scene involving an archer aiming his
bow upward the midst of warriors and generals convened within the
rock-filled garden, the recessed base painted in cobalt with a double
ring under a colorless glaze (both jars with some wear to enamels).
12 3/8in (31.5cm) high
US$1,200 - 1,800
