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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JAMES 2339
E. BREECE III

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A GROUP OF QINGBAI VESSELS
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH
CENTURY

The group comprises a small ewer with
rounded sides carved with narrow vertical
bands, a small melon-form box and cover,
a small box and cover molded on the
cover with blossoming prunus, and a box
and cover molded with a leafy branch and
molded with lobed sides. All are covered
with a glaze of pale aqua color.
The ewer 5 in. (12.6 cm.) wide, one cloth
box (4)

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE:

The ewer:
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
Warren E. Cox Collection.
Concordia House Collection; Sotheby’s
New York, 19 March 2007, lot 144 (part).
The box and cover with lobed sides:
L. Y. Lee, New York.
Corcordia House Collection; Sotheby’s New
York, 19 March 2007, lot 144 (part).
The box with prunus fowers:
Eskenazi, London.

LITERATURE:

The ewer and the box and cover with lobed
sides:
B. Monroe, Chinese Ceramics from Chicago
Collections, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois,
1982, nos. 32 and 31 respectively.

南宋/元 青白釉器一組四件

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TWO SAGGARS CONTAINING QINGBAI
BOWLS

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

The saggars contain and are fused to two

qingbai bowls, both concave in the center and

molded with petal-lobed rims, and covered

in a glaze of pale whitish-blue color.

The largest 7º in. (18.3 cm.) diam. (2)

$3,000-5,000

南宋 帶青白釉盌匣缽兩件

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