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A GROUP OF MONOCHROME VESSELS A GROUP OF NINE SMALL WHITE WARES
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911) AND LATER MING-QING DYNASTY (1368-1911)
The group includes a black-glazed tripod censer with upright handles, the The group includes a Dehua ladle; a white-glazed stem dish with lobed
interior covered with a dark brown wash; a Jun-style pear-shaped bottle vase, sides; a white-glazed hexagonal bowl with angular loop handles; a Dehua
covered with a milky sky-blue glaze; a Jun-style shallow dish, covered with jar with cover, each molded with a band of narrow petals; a shallow white-
a dark blue and milky blue glaze that thins on the rim and concentric rings in glazed pouring vessel, possibly Liao dynasty; a white-glazed double-gourd
the center of the interior; a ‘teadust’-glazed quatrefoil jardinière raised on four vase; a Dehua cup with branch-form handle; a white-glazed cup with handle
ruyi supports, the base inscribed with an apocryphal Yongzheng seal mark; a issuing from an animal mask; and a Dehua square bird feeder with rounded
small meiping covered with a marbled glaze of turquoise, blue and red color; sides. Together with a small Jun-type stem bowl, possibly Guangdong, Qing
and a saucer dish with everted rim covered with a crackle-sufused, milky- dynasty (1644-1911).
white glaze, except for an unglazed ring in the center of the interior.
Largest 4√ in. (12.5 cm.) wide, each with a hongmu stand and a cloth box
Largest 8¬ in. (22 cm.) diam., fve hongmu stands, fve cloth boxes (10)
(6) $4,000-6,000
$2,500-4,000
PROVENANCE
PROVENANCE J. M. Hu (1911-1995) Collection.
J. M. Hu (1911-1995) Collection.
EXHIBITED
清及以後 單色釉器一組 Hexagonal bowl, jar and cover, cup with branch-form handle, and bird feeder:
Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, An Exhibition of Te Hua
Porcelain, Art Gallery, January - June 1975, nos. 69, 67, 17 and 70, respectively.
See illustration of nine
明/清 白瓷器一組

807 (nine of ten)