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A FAMILLE ROSE SQUARE-SECTIONED BALUSTER VASE
REPUBLIC PERIOD (1912-1949)

民國 黃地粉彩通景山水圖瓶

Each side of the body is variously decorated with a gentleman and a boy
looking at a crane fying over their heads, a pair of carp, a mountainous river
landscape and a bird perched on a branch of chrysanthemum. The fared neck
and foot are decorated with stylised fowers and scrolls on a yellow ground
bordered by blue enamelled classical scrolls. The base is painted with an
apocryphal Qianlong mark.

9 in. (23 cm.) high

£800-1,200 $1,300-1,800
€1,100-1,600

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A YELLOW-GLAZED CARVED ‘CRANE AND PRUNUS’ BRUSH POT
19TH-20TH CENTURY

清十九/二十世紀 黃釉雕瓷梅妻鶴子紋筆筒

The brush pot is intricately carved to the exterior with two cartouches,
one enclosing a crane below pine, the other a fowering prunus branch, all
surrounded by a foral diaper ground. The base is carved with a seal mark
reading Wang Bingrong zuo.

5Ω in. (14 cm.) high

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

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AN ENAMELLED PORCELAIN BUST OF A GIRL
ZENG LONGSHENG (1900-1964)

曾龍昇 粉彩女士頭像

The girl is modelled smiling with her hair in two plaits, wearing a white
shirt with incised striped decoration underneath a green shawl. There is an
impressed Zeng Longsheng zao seal mark to the interior.

7¿ in. (18 cm.) high

£600-1,000 $910-1,500
€820-1,400

Zeng Longsheng (1901-1964) was a celebrated potter at the Jingdezhen kilns
who specialized in fgural sculptures.

A bust of a laughing peasant also by this artist can be found in the Victoria
and Albert Museum, museum no. FE.26-1990.

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