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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
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TWO BLACKISH-BROWN-GLAZED VESSELS A GROUP OF WHITE WARES
LATE QING DYNASTY, 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY MING-QING DYNASTY (1368-1911)
One is a vase of square section, with plain tapered lower body and horizontally The group includes a circular box and cover, the sides slip-decorated with ribs
lobed upper body that tapers towards the square mouth, which is covered and the center of the cover decorated with a fower stem, all under a cream
inside and out with a lustrous blackish-brown glaze. The other is in the shape glaze; a Dehua circular box and cover, the sides molded with ribs and the cover
of a large alms bowl, the globular body tapering from a high shoulder to the with fowering tree peony, all under a milk-white glaze; a small cup, possibly
round base and covered overall with a lustrous blackish-brown glaze that also Dehua, molded with shou characters and fowers under a white glaze; a Dehua
covers the rounded base. The rim has a silver mount. tripod censer, the shallow body raised on three mask-and-paw supports, and
covered with a creamy glaze; a cream-glazed pear-shaped water dropper; a
7æ and 8Ω in. (19.7 and 21.6 cm.) high, each with a hongmu stand
and a cloth box small cream-glazed incised soft-paste double vase; a cream-glazed ‘ogee’ cup;
(2) a small cream-glazed vessel of zhadou shape; and a jarlet with thread-relief
decoration under a greyish white glaze.
$3,000-5,000
Largest 5æ in. (14.6 cm.) diam., each has a hongmu stand and a cloth box
(9)
PROVENANCE $3,000-5,000
J. M. Hu (1911-1995) Collection.
晚清 醬黑釉瓷兩件
PROVENANCE
J. M. Hu (1911-1995) Collection.
EXHIBITED
Larger box and cover: Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
An Exhibition of Te Hua Porcelain, Art Gallery, January - June 1975, no. 2.
明/清 白瓷器一組

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