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A BLUE AND WHITE RIBBED BARBED-RIM BOWL
16TH CENTURY

明十六世紀 青花折枝花卉紋花口碗 PROVENANCE:

The bowl is decorated to the exterior with various leafy fowering branches A Private American Collection.
below a band of horses galloping over waves. The interior is decorated with
a central roundel enclosing a landscape scene, surrounded by faming foral 來源：美國私人舊藏
palmettes below a band of fshing boats, fags, pagodas and rocks. The base
has a four-character mark reading fu gui jian qi. The mark to the base can be translated as ‘beautiful vessel for the rich and
honourable’.
8Ω in. (21.6 cm.) diam.
Compare the current lot to an identical pair of bowls in the collection of the
£2,000-3,000 $3,100-4,500 Topkapi Saray Palace, Istanbul, illustrated by John Ayers and Regina Krahl
€2,800-4,100 in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Yuan and Ming Dynasty
Porcelains, London, 1986, no. 1280, p. 725.

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ENGLISH
COLLECTION

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE SECTION OF
A VASE
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)

明 青花松鼠紋瓶底

The exterior is decorated in sgrafiato style in inky
blue tones with squirrels clambering on branches
of gnarled trees. The foot is encircled by a band of
foral scroll.

11 in. (27.9 cm.) diam.

£2,000-3,000 $3,100-4,500
€2,800-4,100

PROVENANCE:

Property from a Private English Collection,
acquired prior to 1985.

來源：英國私人珍藏，於1985年之
前購入

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