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A blue and white circular box A blue and white jardinière
Wanli six-character mark and of the period Circa 1640
Of domed form, decorated in vivid blue with pine trees, lingzhi Painted around the exterior with a sage riding a donkey with
branches, plum blossoms and stalks of bamboo issuing from a smiling boy aside approaching a bridge, followed by three
rockwork, all scattered around the exterior between a key-fret border attendants carrying his personal belongings, the other side with a
above and a classic scroll band below, the interior white. man accompanied by his attendant standing on a rocky outcrop, all
25.1cm (10in) diam. amidst a mountainous landscape.
£2,000 - 3,000 21.8cm (8½in) diam.
HK$25,000 - 37,000 CNY20,000 - 29,000 £4,000 - 6,000
明萬曆 青花松竹梅靈芝圓盒 青花「大明萬曆年製」楷書款 (不含蓋) HK$50,000 - 75,000 CNY39,000 - 59,000

約1640年 青花山水人物圖花盆
Compare a related blue and white jardinière or kang in the
Shanghai Museum, dated to the Chongzhen period and illustrated
in Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai
Museum and the Butler Collections: Beauty’s Enchantment,
Shanghai, 2005, p.110, no.23.

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Two blue and white kendi
Early Kangxi
Each brightly painted around the body in a deep violet-toned blue
with scrolling foliate lotus blooms, between narrow bands of wet dots
at the foot and base of the neck, the cylindrical neck with upright
petals, the bulbous spout with foliate motifs.
The taller 20.3cm (8in) high (2).
£3,000 - 5,000
HK$37,000 - 62,000 CNY29,000 - 49,000
清康熙早期 青花纏枝蓮紋軍持兩件

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