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2376 (two views)

                                                                                           VARIOUS PROPERTIES

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                                                                                           A FINELY PAINTED BLUE AND WHITE JAR
                                                                                           KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

                                                                                           The sides are decorated with two scenes
                                                                                           of fgures in landscape settings, in one a
                                                                                           young man kneels before a seated offcial
                                                                                           surrounded by attendants, and on the reverse
                                                                                           with a young offcial observing a gathering
                                                                                           of court ladies, several on horseback, and
                                                                                           one kneeling on a carpet, all below ‘The
                                                                                           Three Friends of Winter’ (pine, prunus
                                                                                           and bamboo) on the neck. An apocryphal
                                                                                           Chenghua mark is on the base.
                                                                                           9 in. (23 cm.) high

                                                                                           $7,000-9,000

                                                                                           PROVENANCE:

                                                                                           Private American collection, acquired in the
                                                                                           1950s-60s.
                                                                                           清康熙 青花「楊門女將」圖罐

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