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                                                             A STUDY GROUP OF TWELVE MONOCHROME-GLAZED
                                                             VESSELS
                                                             18th to mid-20th century
                                                             Comprising: a sang-de-boeuf baluster vase; a ribbed clair-de-
                                                             lune bottle vase; a Henan-style oviform jar; a fluted pear-shaped
                                                             turquoise-glazed vase and smaller items comprising: two oviform
                                                             powder-blue jars; a green-glazed double gourd bottle vase; an
                                                             aubergine-glazed baluster vase; a saucer dish with the same glaze;
                                                             a pale celadon-glazed footed bowl; a blanc-de-chine slender vase
                                                             with mask handles and a ‘mountain peak’ powder blue-glazed brush
                                                             rest; ten associated hard wood stands. The tallest 35cm (13 3/4in)
                                                             high (22).

                                                             £1,000 - 1,500
                                                             HK$11,000 - 16,000
                                                             CNY8,800 - 13,000
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                     97                                      A SMALL APPLE-GREEN ‘LANGYAO’ JAR AND A TEADUST-
                                                             GLAZED SQUARE PEAR-SHAPED VASE, HU
                                                             Qing Dynasty, the green langyao jar Kangxi
                                                             The jar of ovoid shape terminating in a lipped rim, covered overall
                                                             in a crackled, apple-green copper glaze, the interior, rim and base
                                                             left white; the other with mock-embossed animal mask-and-loop
                                                             handles, covered overall in a dark, teadust glaze. The jar: 12cm (4
                                                             3/4in) high (2).
                                                             £1,000 - 1,500
                                                             HK$11,000 - 16,000
                                                             CNY8,800 - 13,000

                                                             A similar apple-green jar to the one in the present lot was sold at
                                                             Bonhams, London, 11 May 2021, lot 198; another was sold at
                                                             Christie’s, New York, 19 March 2015, lot 406.

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                                                             A GROUP OF FOUR FLAMBÉ AND SANG-DE-BOEUF SMALL
                                                             VESSELS
                                                             18th/19th century
                                                             Comprising: a red-glazed globular brush washer; a sang-de-boeuf
                                                             brush washer with a compressed globular body and everted rim,
           98                                                apocryphal Xuande six-character reign mark; a small flambé jar; and
                                                             a purple glazed small Meiping vase with an apocryphal Kangxi four-
                                                             character seal mark. The tallest: 9.3cm (3 5/8in) high (4).
                                                             £2,000 - 3,000
                                                             HK$21,000 - 32,000
                                                             CNY18,000 - 26,000


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