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A SMALL BLUE-GLAZED DUCK-FORM WATER
DROPPER
17TH CENTURY
The water dropper is molded as a duck with a boy clambering on
its back. It is covered with a glaze of rich blue tone except for the
boy’s white-glazed face and chest.
2¡ in. (6 cm.) long, Japanese double wood box
$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE
The Baron Fujita Family Collection, by 1929.
Osaka Bijitsu Club auction held at the Baron Fujita family
residence, 10 May 1929, lot 289.
十七世紀 藍釉童子戲鴨水滴

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A ZHANGZHOU WARE SLIP-DECORATED BROWN-
GLAZED VASE
MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
The pear-shaped vase is decorated in white slip on an amber-
brown ground with two fower-pots of leafy, blossoming
chrysanthemum growing amidst rockwork.
11 in. (28.2 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
$7,000-9,000

Two slip-decorated brown-ground ‘garlic mouth’ vases with
similarly-rendered plants in the British Museum, are illustrated by
J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London,
2001, p. 34, pls. II:188 and II:189, where they are dated Ming
dynasty, c. 1573-1620. The author notes that this combination
of tofee-brown ground with contrasting white decoration was
frst introduced in the Wanli period, and that shards of this type
dating to the late Ming era have been excavated at Zhushan in
Jingdezhen.
明十六/十七世紀 漳州窯醬地白花盆花圖瓶

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