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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘LION MEDALLION’
BOWL
SHUNZHI PERIOD (1644-1661)
The bowl is decorated on the exterior with four lion
medallions separated by four Buddhist emblems above
lotus sprigs. The interior is decorated with a central
lion medallion within a double circle. The base has an
apocryphal Jiajing mark.
5¬ in. (14.3 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
$8,000-12,000
清順治 青花團獅紋盌

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A WUCAI BALUSTER JAR AND COVER
SHUNZHI PERIOD (1644-1661)
The jar is decorated in bright enamels with a scene of
a gentleman visitor paying his respects to a lady on a
garden terrace, the gentleman accompanied by one
attendant with a canopy and another with a wrapped qin,
all below a band of ‘cracked-ice’ and peony and camellia
on the neck. The cover is decorated with three boys at
play, and surmounted by a Buddhist lion-form fnial.
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high
$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE
Christie’s Amsterdam, 2 May 2007, lot 33 (part).
The present vase is very unusual for the charming
Buddhist lion which forms the fnial of the cover.
Although such Buddhist-lion-form fnials became very
popular in the 18th century, they were also made in the
17th century: see, for example, a hexagonal vessel and
cover with a Buddhist-lion-form fnial, dated to the
Tianqi-Chongzhen periods (c. 1620-1644), illustrated
by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British
Museum, London, 2005, p. 404, no. 12:130.
清順治 五彩人物蓋罐

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