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           A MOULDED YAOZHOU ‘CRANES’ BOWL   A SMALL YUEYAO FIGURE            A QINGBAI WATER DROPPER, A
           Northern Song Dynasty             Song Dynasty                     CREAM-GLAZED BRUSH WASHER AND
           With slightly rounded conical sides rising   Seated in long flowing robes holding a scroll   A LONGQUAN CELADON JAR AND
           from a narrow foot, the interior moulded in   in the right hand, covered overall in an olive   COVER
           shallow relief with two cranes amidst clouds   green glaze.        Song/Yuan Dynasty
           and between two sprays of bamboo and   8.5cm (3 3/8in) high        Comprising: a moulded qingbai water
           prunus flowers, all covered in a greyish olive-                    dropper with scrolling decoration of lotus
           green glaze.                      £3,000 - 5,000                   flowers to the body in between petals
           16cm (6 1/4in) diam.              HK$29,000 - 49,000               and palmettes rows, the cover with a
                                             CNY26,000 - 43,000               chrysanthemum decoration; a cream-glazed
           £5,000 - 8,000                                                     tripod brush washer; and a Longquan
           HK$49,000 - 78,000                Provenance                       celadon lobed jar and cover.
           CNY43,000 - 68,000                Ben Janssens Oriental Art, London, 3 April   The jar: 9.5cm (3 3/4in) high x 12cm (4 3/4in)
                                             2014.                            wide (5).
           Property from an English private collection
                                                                              £1,200 - 1,400
           Provenance                                                         HK$12,000 - 14,000
           R&V Tregaskis Oriental Art (label)                                 CNY10,000 - 12,000
                                                                              Provenance
                                                                              The qingbai water dropper: The Crane
                                                                              Gallery Inc., Cheney Cowles, Seattle.


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