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VARIOUS PROPERTIES

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TWO BLUE AND WHITE VESSELS

MID-17TH CENTURY

One is a small ‘pomegranate’ ewer, its body divided into six lobes,

each decorated with fowers below a key-fret border on the shoulder

and birds perched in fowering branches on the neck that tapers to

a rim in the form of an out-curved calyx. The front of the body is

applied with slender leaves that trail from the base of the branch-form

spout. The other is a ‘Hatcher Cargo’ blue and white bowl, the sides

pierced with cash diaper between fve medallions decorated with

fowers or landscapes joined by a lower band of petal lappets.

Ewer 6º in. (16 cm.) high, bowl 4º in. (10.7 cm.) diam. (2)

$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE:

Bowl: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
Both: Private American collection, acquired in the 1950s-60s.

明末清初 青花器兩件

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A BLUE AND WHITE HIGH-SHOULDERED VASE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

The vase is decorated on the shoulder with four cranes in fight above
a band of four rocks rising from crashing waves at the foot, and on
the neck with a four-clawed dragon pursuing a faming pearl amidst
fames. A double circle in underglaze blue is on the base.
9√ in. (25 cm.) high

$7,000-9,000

2220 PROVENANCE:

74 Private American collection, acquired in the 1950s-60s.

清康熙 青花遊龍仙鶴紋紙槌瓶