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A BLUE AND WHITE VASE
KANGXI PERIOD, CIRCA 1700
Bisected by a band of scrollwork and fanked by
two fanges
8√ in. (22.5 cm.) high
$2,000–3,000

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A BLUE AND WHITE SWEDISH MARKET
PLATE
YONGZHENG PERIOD, CIRCA 1735
The center with the armorial water bird device of the
Grill family in an inky cobalt blue in the center, the rim
fnely molded in a foral pattern
8æ in. (22.2 cm.) diameter
$1,500–2,500

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A PAIR OF TROMPE L'OEIL 'REVERSIBLE
PORTRAIT' PLATES
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1790
Each enameled in blue, grisaille, sepia, iron-red, and gilt
with a central roundel depicting the profle portrait of
a young woman wearing a bonnet tied with a ribbon,
conjoined to the profle of an elderly bespectacled
matron, the border with a blue enamel leaf band
9Ω in. (24.1 cm.) diameter (2)
$2,000–3,000

PROVENANCE:
With Cohen & Cohen, London.
This design is taken from a series of similar portraits,
frst illustrated in a comic print and then copied on
to English ceramics, where they have been given
titles such as 'Grandma/Miss' and 'Before and After
Marriage.'

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