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A BLUE AND WHITE KO-SOMETSUKE (mark)
DISH
TIANQI PERIOD, CIRCA 1621-1627

The interior of the dish is decorated with
Shoulao seated on a rock surrounded by
seven of the Daoist immortals beneath
overhanging pine trees. The fat, everted
rim is decorated with a dense band of blue
medallions.

10Ω in. (26.9 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

$7,000-9,000

A blue and white dish painted in similar style with
fgures in a landscape is illustrated by Masahiko
Kawara, Ko-sometsuke, Kyoto, 1977, p. 148, no.
582.
明天啓前後 青花‘古染付’壽老圖盤

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTOR

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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘HARE’ TRIPOD
CENSER
SHUNZHI PERIOD (1644-1661)

The censer is thickly potted with rounded
sides supported on three rectangular feet. It
is decorated on the exterior with a hare on a
terraced garden with pine and plantain trees,
and the base has a six-character mark reading
da Qing nian Dexing zhi (Made by Dexing in
the Great Qing).
8¬ in. (22cm.) diam.

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 October 1991, lot
940.
The Collection of Peter and Nancy
Thompson; Sotheby’s London, 9 November
2012, lot 11.

EXHIBITED

Hull University, United Kingdom, From the
Tang to the Qing: Chinese Ceramics from circa
618-1850 A.D. from the Collection of Dr. and
Mrs. Peter Thompson, 1996, no. 87.

清順治 青花玉兔圖三足爐
「大清年得興製」款

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