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PROPERTY FROM A DUTCH PRIVATE COLLECTION ANOTHER PROPERTY

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A PAIR OF SMALL FAMILLE ROSE ‘MEDALLION’ BOWLS A VERY RARE PAIR OF BLUE-GLAZED
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN IRON CONG-FORM VASES
RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850) XIANFENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE
BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1851-1861)
Each is decorated with four medallions, two enclosing ‘antiques’,
one roses and one mallow, all surrounded by formal stylized The thickly potted vases are of square section and relief-decorated
foliate scroll. on each side with the eight trigrams, and covered overall with a
glaze of rich cobalt blue color.
4¿ in. (10.5 cm.) diam. (2)
$8,000-12,000
13¬ in. (34.5 cm.) high, box (2)
$60,000-80,000
PROVENANCE

Private collection, The Netherlands, early 1960s.

清道光 粉彩開光花卉紋盌一對 礬紅六字篆書款 The form of these vases is based on a jade cong ritual object with
a circular core and a square exterior, often with stylized masks
carved in horizontal registers at the corners. For an example, see
the jade cong dating to the Neolithic Period, Liangzhu Culture, in
the Nanjing Museum, included in the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum Exhibition, China, 5000 Years, New York, 1998, no. 5.

1385 (mark) Ceramic vases of archaistic cong form were produced as early
as the Song dynasty at the Guan and Longquan kilns, such as a
Guan vase with notches on four corners from the Percival David
Foundation and now housed at the British Museum, illustrated by
Rosemary Scott in Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art.
A Guide to the Collection, London, 1989, fg. 42.

清咸豐 藍釉琮式瓶一對 六字楷書款

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