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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A BLUE AND WHITE EWER WITH SILVER MOUNTS PROVENANCE
CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644) Christie’s New York, 21 March 2002, lot 182.
Made for the Dutch market, the pear-shaped ewer is raised on a waisted
pedestal foot and decorated with a scene of scholars drinking wine in a Blue and white wares of this type were made for the Dutch market, and a
landscape setting below a band of leafy tulip sprays on the shoulder and similar ewer or ‘wine’ jug, also with silver mounts, can be seen in a Dutch
further sprays on the waisted neck which rises to a spouted rim, and the seventeenth century still-life painting by S. Luttichuys (1610-1661) illustrated
curved handle is decorated with fames. The silver cover is fully marked on the by Dr. A. I. Spriggs, ‘Oriental Porcelain in Western Paintings, 1450-1700’,
inside, probably Dutch Haarlem, 18th century, and the thumb-piece is in the T.O.C.S., 1964-66, vol. 36, pp. 73-87, pl. 71c.
form of a standing peacock. 明崇禎 青花飲酒圖執壺
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high
$4,000-6,000

VARIOUS PROPEPTIES
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A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE JARDINIÈRE
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1640-1650
The jardinière is decorated on the exterior with
two scholars in a bamboo grove on one side and
an attendant holding a toy boat by a riverscape
on the other side.
5⅛ in. (13.1 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
$5,000-7,000

十七世紀 青花高士圖小卷缸

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