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6208 6213
A DEHUA FIGURE OF GUANYIN WITH TRACES OF PIGMENT A POWDER BLUE GLAZED BALUSTER VASE
18th century 19th century
Posed in the posture of royal ease with her right leg raised to support Molded with a cupped rim and raised string band circling the
her hand holding a scroll, a scepter-shaped plaque and bow-tied cylindrical neck, the elongated body raised on a tall foot, the exterior
sash applied to the front immediately below her necklace, the face walls sprayed with a richly mottled layer of cobalt beneath a celadon-
and the unglazed hair beneath her head scarf both showing traces tinged glaze covering all surfaces except the foot pad, the recessed
of pigment; now attached into a later polychrome and gilt lacquered base painted with a double ring in underglaze blue (base drilled and
wood lotus flower plinth (wear to figure, cracks to wood stand). filled).
10 3/4in (27.2cm) height of figure and stand 18 1/4in (46.4cm) high
$1,000 - 1,500 $1,000 - 1,500

6209 6214
A DEHUA GLAZED PORCELAIN BEAUTY A PAIR OF ENAMELED POTTERY DOUBLE-GOURD VASES
Republic period The thinly potted vessels of squat shape surmounted by wide
Her hair artfully arranged and her clothing falling in billowing folds as mouths covered in a speckled robin’s egg blue glaze, the recessed
she stands holding a flowering branch applied to the surfaces along bases bearing barely visible impressed makers’ marks.
with a cloud collar necklace across her shoulders and a thin cord 5 1/4in (13.3cm) high
belt falling in trailing streamers from her waist, the hollow interior
stamped China beneath a glaze applied everywhere except the foot $1,000 - 1,500
pad (chips).
10in (25.5cm) high
PROPERTY FROM THE IRENE CHIN COLLECTION, SAN
FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
$1,500 - 2,500
6215
6210
A LARGE TRANSMUTATION RED GLAZED BOWL
A PAIR OF CELADON GLAZED ROULEAU VASES Molded with an everted foliate rim surrounding the wide, deep well,
Kangxi marks, 19th century the scarlet red glaze suffused with veins and spots of pale turquoise
Each thickly potted with a cupped rim to the cylindrical neck, a blue that stop along the exterior foot, leaving the foot pad and
canted shoulder and a tall body tapering inward at the foot, the recessed base without glaze.
exterior walls covered with a gray-green glaze and all other surfaces 15 1/2in (39.5cm) diameter
displaying a colorless glaze, the recessed base bearing the six-
character mark written in underglaze blue standard script within a
double ring. $1,000 - 1,500
17 1/4in (44cm) high
PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER
$2,000 - 3,000
6216
6211 A BLUE GLAZED FLORIFORM DISH
A PAIR OF COPPER RED GLAZED STICK NECK VASES, 19th century
TIANQIUPING Molded in the shape of an open peony flower with an eight-lobed
Late Qing/Republic period rim conforming to the rows of overlapping petals on the interior well
Each thickly potted with a cylindrical neck rising from a compressed and external walls covered by a cobalt wash, a celadon-tinged glaze
globular body raised on a low foot, the scarlet red glaze stopping covering all surfaces except the pad of the tall foot ring.
neatly along the foot and continuing on the upper interior neck, the 9in (23cm) diameter
foot and recessed base left unglazed and finished with an iron wash
(one foot chipped). $2,500 - 4,000
17 1/2in (44.5cm) high

$2,000 - 3,000
6212
A TRANSMUTATION GLAZED BALUSTER VASE
Qianlong mark, Republic period
Its flaring rim of foliate form conforming to the six lobes molded into
the body walls above a tall spreading foot, the scarlet red glaze layer
suffused with stripes and patches of pale blue that turns to greenish
brown on the interior walls, the recessed base bearing the six-
character mark impressed in seal script beneath a chocolate brown
glaze (foot polished).
8 1/4in (21cm) high
$1,500 - 2,500

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