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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER VASES, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD, each with a bulging
center rising from a spreading foot to a trumpet neck, painted in shades of blue with scenes of ladies, the uppermost register with a seated
court lady entertained by a dancer and a band of musicians, the middle with two ladies admiring potted peony in a garden, and the lower
with four ladies on a terrace bearing a qin and a basin, each composition bordered with chevron bands, the base with an artemesia leaf in
underglaze blue within a double circle (2)

⌲Ꮴ⛆ 䱿㟞Ђຠృ㟞㼇̭ᄺ
Height of taller 16¾ in., 42.6 cm
$ 10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE ҳ⎽
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York. Ralph M Chait Galleries喑㈽㈱
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A BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER VASE, TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, C. 1640, the cylindrical form sweeping to a
flared rim, painted in deep cobalt blue tones with myriad vessels bearing foliage and blossoms and a beaker vase of scrolls among them
on a low table, the middle section with a band of foliate and ingot-form emblems above a row of pendent plantain leaves, all set between
varying bands of deftly incised diaper, foliate, and auspicious motifs
䕻⍎᱌ ㈱1640Ꭱ 䱿㟞㟞ࡶృ㟞㼇
Height 17⅞ in., 45.4 cm
$ 20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE ҳ⎽
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Sotheby’s London, 3 July 1984, lot 4. ՘᪓㬴ჹ℁1984Ꭱ7ᰵ3ᬒ喑㌕㮌4
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E & J Frankel, New York. E & J Frankel喑㈽㈱
A vase of this form with similar decoration and bearing a cyclical date mark corresponding to 1639 is
illustrated and discussed in the opening essays of Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, Hong Kong
Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1981, fig. 18, and another similar example, included in the same exhibition and
bearing a cyclical date mark corresponding to 1640, is illustrated op.cit., cat. no. 65.

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