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A HUANGHUALI TWO-PART TABLE STAND 清 黃花梨雙層書卷式檯几 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION The inscription on the base translates as ‘Made by Ruan’.
QING DYNASTY A FINE AND RARE INSCRIBED DEHUA BLANC- With the exception of six major families in the Ming dynasty
comprising two components of varying heights to form a DE-CHINE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER, DING recorded as leading makers of Dehua ware, very little is known
stepped stand, each of parallelogram section and carved with MING DYNASTY about makers of the time. Even for the Qing dynasty there
a plain top, extending towards panelled legs pierced with lobed appears to be little biographical material available for Dehua
cartouches and terminating in incurved scrolled feet decorated around the sides with a raised fillet between a band porcelain making.
overall 56 by 12.7 by h. 21 cm, 22 by 5 by h. 8¼ in. of impressed leiwen pattern and pendent triangular leaves with See a related Dehua ding decorated with archaistic ornaments,
alternating keyfret and foliate designs, the base incised with an illustrated in P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, London, 1969, pl.
inscription reading Ruan zao 13D; a fangding decorated with dragon handles and taotie
◉ HK$ 80,000-120,000 18.6 cm, 7¼ in.
US$ 10,400-15,500 mask feet, included in Robert H. Blumenfield, op.cit., p. 23,
fig. D; and another archaistic fangding in the Palace Museum,
PROVENANCE Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji [Complete series
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 27th October 1992, lot 91. on Chinese ceramics], vol. 13, Shanghai, 2000, pl. 172.
Christie’s Hong Kong, 25th October 1993, lot 816.
HK$ 400,000-600,000
US$ 52,000-77,500

明 德化窰白瓷蕉葉雷紋雙耳三足爐
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來源：
香港蘇富比1992年10月27日，編號91
香港佳士得1993年10月25日，編號816