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TWO SLIP-DECORATED ‘PRUNUS’ VASES Provenance:
Mid-Late Qing Dynasty Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York
Comprising a pear-shaped brown-glazed vase decorated under the Purchase by subscription, 1879
glaze with a lightly incised white slip depicting branches of prunus The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present
blossom and budding stems alongside narcissus to one side; and a
widely crackled lavender-glazed meiping vase decorated in an opaque 來源：
white slip with a long-beaked bird perched on a gnarled blossoming Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904)，紐約
prunus tree rising from a knoll near rockwork to one side, the neck 會費購藏，1879 年
interior and the base with a crackled white-glazed, the base with a rare 大都會藝術博物館，1879 年迄今
underglaze-blue four-character seal mark reading Chenghua nian zhi.
(2) For another white-slip-decorated pale-blue-glazed vase decorated with
brown-glazed vase: 9 1/2in (24.1cm) high birds amidst flowers, see Ronald and Juliana Chao, Our Encounter
meiping: 9 3/8in (23.8cm) high with Ceramics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 2018, p. 077, no. 068.

$1,500 - 2,000
清中晚期 醬釉貼塑花卉紋膽瓶 及天藍釉堆白「喜上眉梢」梅瓶

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

Detail: see p.16 (T)

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