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531 A FAMILLE-VERTE ‘LADIES’ DISH
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD

painted to the interior with two elegantly attired ladies playing
a lively game of weiqi, observed by two companions seated by
the table, set in an open pavilion nely furnished with porcelain
stools, a side table with books and a censer, a large screen
behind, enclosed within a colorfully painted balustrade and a
tiled roof with upswept eaves, the underside with foliage and
rockwork, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze
blue within a double circle
Diameter 14⅞ in., 37.8 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Heber R. Bishop (1840-1902), and thence by
descent.
$ 3,000-5,000

Heber R Bishop 1840 1902

531

A BLUE AND WHITE VASE
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

the baluster body rising from a spreading foot to a tall
cylindrical neck and garlic mouth with everted lipped rim, the
body painted to one side with a shaped cartouche enclosing
a scene of a scholar and attendant in a landscape, and to the
other side with an arrangement of antiques and auspicious
emblems, with a twelve-character inscription above reading
bogu fengsheng suijiu shiwan qixiang zengxin (although there is
a long history in collecting antiques, recently a new collecting
trend emerged), followed by a painted seal impression, the
base with a seal mark reading Gu, the neck with cloud scroll
and ruyi borders
Height 10¾ in., 27.3 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Heber R. Bishop (1840-1902), and thence by
descent.
$ 6,000-8,000

Heber R Bishop 1840 1902

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