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AN UNUSUAL IRON-RUST GLAZED BOTTLE VASE TWO IRON-RUST GLAZED INCENSE BURNERS
18th century Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century
The globular body gently rising to a tall straight neck, the exterior Each of carefully potted bombé form, simulating Ming dynasty bronze
applied with a rust-red glaze suffused with brown and iridescent censers, the first standing on a flared foot, its waisted neck and
speckles, all supported on a splayed foot, the base polished. swelling sides supporting two arched openwork handles, all surfaces,
11 in (28cm) high except the recessed base and the floor of the interior well, applied with
a brownish-red glaze suffused with iridescent speckles; the second
$3,000 - 5,000 rising from a nearly straight foot to a gently waisted neck, with a thin,
slightly rounded rim, flanked by two stylized chilong handles, the rust-
Provenance red glaze mottled with silver-gray spots, the foot pad and the interior
floor unglazed.
Crane Gallery, Seattle, Washington 5 3/8 and 5in (3.7 and 2.7cm) wide across handles
a Private Collector, Spokane, Washington
Crane Gallery, Seattle, Washington, acquired 9th November 2007
Collection of Brooks & Dorothy Cofield $2,000 - 3,000

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A LANGYAO GLAZED DEEP BOWL Collection of Brooks & Dorothy Cofield
Qianlong minyao mark and of the period
Molded with a wide deep well raised on a tall foot, the exterior walls Larger censer:
coated with a copper red wash firing to a liver red hue beneath a Estate of Theodora Lang, granddaughter of Hamm’s Brewing founder
celadon-tinged glaze visible on the well and within the deeply recessed Theodore Hamm, St. Paul, Minnesota
base centered with the six-character mark in dark cobalt seal script. Jeremy Moore Antiques, Minneapolis, Minnesota, acquired 12th
7 1/2in (19cm) diameter October 2010
Smaller censer:
$2,500 - 4,000 an English Collection
Tom Tigerio Antiques, Seattle, Washington, acquired 27th March 2009
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