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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CANADIAN COLLECTION

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A PAIR OF MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE ‘NINE DRAGON’ DISHES
18TH CENTURY

The center of the interior is decorated with a fve-clawed dragon

leaping against a background of cresting waves, and on the exterior

with eight further dragons on a similar ground. An apocryphal

Chenghua mark is on the base.

6¿ in. (15.5 cm.) diam. (2)

$15,000-20,000

PROVENANCE:

J. M. Hu (1911-1995) Collection.
Wedding gift to H. H. Hu, early 1930s, and thence by descent to the
present owner.

清十八世紀 青花九龍紋盤一對

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE STEM CUP
KANGXI FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AND OF
THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

The deep, bell-shaped cup is raised on a tall, faring foot and
decorated in a penciled style with a spray of camellia opposite
a similarly rendered spray of crabapple, all below a dentil band
interrupted by a four-character Kangxi mark in a line at the rim and
above plantain leaves on the foot.
4 in. (10 cm.) high

$8,000-12,000

2230 PROVENANCE:

82 J. M. Hu (1911-1995) Collection.
Wedding gift to H. H. Hu, early 1930s, and thence by descent to the
present owner.

清康熙 青花鈴鐺盃 單行四字楷書款