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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ALFRED E. GUNTERMANN (1943-2013)

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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE MEDALLION BOWLS

Each bowl has deep, rounded sides and is fnely penciled in pale
underglaze blue on the exterior with four circular medallions formed
by the stems of various fowers, and on the interior with a similar
medallion within a double-line border repeated at the rim. The base
of each bowl is inscribed with an apocryphal Yongzheng mark.

4Ω in. (11.3 cm.) diam. (2)

$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE

Alfred E. Guntermann (1943-2013) Collection, Connecticut.

This pair of bowls would have been further decorated with doucai enamels,
as seen on a Yongzheng bowl of the same size and pattern in the National
Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated in Enamelled Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty,
Book I, Hong Kong, 1969, p. 76, pls. 3, 3a, and on another pair from the T.Y.
Chao Private Family Trust Collection sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 19 May
1987, lot 297.
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ANOTHER PROPERTY

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A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE-GOURD VASE

Of double-gourd form and with a pair of ruyi-scepter handles, the
vase is raised on a rectangular foot and decorated in underglaze blue
on either side of the fattened lower body with a pair of descending
dragons fanking a shou character, their long, curling tails trailing up
onto the neck on either side of a bat. The vase is further decorated
with a narrow ruyi border at the mouth. The base is inscribed with a
Jiaqing seal mark in underglaze blue.

6¬ in. (16.8 cm.) high

$6,000-8,000 1612

PROVENANCE 321

Private collection, Westchester, New York, acquired c. 1970-71.
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