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6281 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NORTHWEST COLLECTION
A CELADON GLAZED DEEP BASIN WITH WHITE SLIP
DECORATION 6285
19th century A POWDER BLUE AND FAMILLE VERTE ENAMELED VASE,
The white slip forming bamboo leaves, prunus branches and leafy YUHUCHUN PING
twigs across the canted rim and interior walls and a lotus plant Qing dynasty
across the floor of the well, all in contrast with the pale gray-green Of standard shape consisting of a trumpet neck atop a pear-shape
wash on the interior and exterior walls beneath a colorless glaze that body and covered in a speckled cobalt-blue ground, the exterior
continues onto the recessed base. surfaces adorned by densely-composed molded bird and flower
14 1/2in (37cm) diameter decorations in standard hues of green, yellow and iron-red enamels,
the recessed base centered by an underglaze blue double ring.
US$1,000 - 1,500 12 3/4in (32.5cm) high
6282 US$1,000 - 1,500
A SUSANCAI ENAMELED BOWL
Kangxi mark, late Qing/Republic period PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
Potted with a flared rim to the wide well and impressed with two
striding dragons along the exterior walls visible beneath butterflies 6286
and flowering peony branches in yellow, green and aubergine with A GROUP OF FOUR GLAZED CERAMIC FIGURES
black enamel outlines on the colorless glaze covering all surfaces Including a cat night light with open base and cutwork openings,
except the foot pad, the recessed base bearing the six-character painted with cobalt and iron spots beneath a colorless glaze (chips,
mark in underglaze blue standard script. crack); the second a similarly glazed water dropper in the shape
5 3/4in (14.5cm) diameter of a rabbit, the flat base unglazed; and a pair of biscuit enameled
Daoist immortals, each seated on a purple-enameled tree trunk base,
US$4,000 - 6,000 one figure holding a taiji symbol and the other a plant, their capes
and skirts of applied mugwort leaves colored in leaf green enamels
6283 (chipped.)
A SMALL WUCAI DECORATED BOWL 5 1/2in (14cm) width of the cat
Kangxi mark 8 1/2in (21.5cm) height of immortals
The floor of the wide interior well painted with a dragon roundel, and
two dragons alternating with phoenixes beneath a band of Eight US$800 - 1,200
Buddhist Treasures separated by cloud collar lappets, the recessed
base bearing the six-character mark inscribed in underglaze blue 6287
stand within a double ring. A GROUP OF FOUR FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED IMMORTALS
4in (10.2cm) diameter 19th century
Including Shoulao in a yellow garment holding a peach, Lan Caihe
US$800 - 1,200 in turquoise holding the remains of a flute, the female immortal He
Xian’gu in lime green holding the remains of a lotus plant and Han
PROPERTY FROM A SAN FRANCISCO ESTATE, THE Xiangzi in lime green holding a basket (wear, chips).
COLLECTION FORMED PRIOR TO THE 1970S 8 3/4in (22.2cm) average height
6284 US$800 - 1,200
A CELADON GLAZED BOTTLE VASE WITH UNDERGLAZE RED
DECORATION
18th/19th century
Of truncated pear form, now reduced in size and the present lip
mounted with a metal band, the exterior painted in copper red with
opposing fantastic beasts beneath a densely crazed glaze of pale
green hue on the interior and exterior walls but firing clear within the
recessed base (foot chipped).
8 1/8in (20.5cm) high
US$500 - 700
The vase was listed in an appraisal report compiled by the Chingwah
Lee Studio Orientalia, April 11, 1972.
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