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PROPERTY FROM A SAN FRANCISCO
ESTATE, THE COLLECTION FORMED
PRIOR TO THE 1970S
9133
A CELADON GLAZED BOTTLE VASE
WITH UNDERGLAZE RED DECORATION
18th/19th century
Of truncated pear form, now reduced in size
and the present lip mounted with a metal
band, the exterior painted in copper red with
opposing fantastic beasts beneath a densely
crazed glaze of pale green hue on the interior
and exterior walls but firing clear within the
recessed base (foot chipped).
8 1/8in (20.5cm) high
US$800 - 1,200
9128 PROPERTY FROM A SONOMA COUNTY
COLLECTION
9128 PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER 9134
A CELADON GLAZED ARCHAISTIC VASE A GROUP OF THREE TRANSMUTATION
WITH ELEPHANT HEAD HANDLES 9131 W RED GLAZED VASES
Late Qing/Republic period A GROUP OF THREE CELADON GLAZED Late Qing/Republic period
The trunks of the elephants arching over a PORCELAINS WITH WHITE SLIP Each displaying opalescent blue veins and
raised rib that encircles the neck along with DECORATION translucent pale green patches in the bright
leiwen, upright leaf and descending petal Late Qing dynasty crimson ground: including a pair of baluster
bands carved and molded into the surface Including a pair of large baluster-shaped form with rolled rims to the cylindrical necks;
above a tall frieze of flowering peony branches vases with flaring rims above molded dragon the third with a long neck rising from a
and a narrow band of overlapping petals handles at the neck, the surfaces filled with compressed pear-form body supported on a
above the flared foot ring, the gray-green butterflies, flowering branches, bamboo and wide foot pad (gaps in the glaze).
glaze covering most surfaces. auspicious fruit rendered in white slip against 9 1/2 and 12 3/8in (24.2 and 31.5cm) high
12 1/2in (31.8cm) high the pale gray-green glaze (one vase repaired);
the third a hexagonal-sectioned garden seat US$1,000 - 1,500
US$4,000 - 6,000 with cash-patterned openings to the top
and swelling sides, the white slip decoration 9135
9129 including birds amid flowering branches and A GROUP OF FOUR TRANSMUTATION
A CELADON GLAZED DISH fruit against a glaze of similar gray-green hue. RED GLAZED VASES
Qianlong mark, 19th century 35in (89cm) height of vases Late Qing/Republic period
The gently concave interior surfaces centered 18 3/4in (47.5cm) height of garden seat The first with a compressed globular mouth,
by an elaborate scrolling dragon roundel tall shoulder and brilliant peacock blue
beneath the sea-green glaze, the recessed US$2,000 - 3,000 markings in the crimson glaze (base ground);
base bearing the cobalt six-character mark. the second of meiping form with red and
10 3/4in (27.4cm) diameter PROPERTY FROM A SONOMA COUNTY purple coloration to the glaze (base ground);
COLLECTION the third of pear form with flared rim to the
US$800 - 1,200 tall neck and showing mixed opalescent blue
9132 and scarlet patches (chipped); the smallest
PROPERTY FROM A SONOMA COUNTY A GROUP OF SIX CRACKLE GLAZED of hexagonal faceted shape with elephant
COLLECTION CONTAINERS head and mock ring handles, the scarlet color
Late Qing/Republic period predominating in the glaze.
9130 The glazes ranging from gray-green to off-white 8 1/8 to 4 3/4in (20.5 to 12cm) high
A CELADON GLAZED MEIPING VASE marked with black and russet craze lines: the
Republic period first a shallow bowl molded with raised bosses US$1,200 - 1,800
Molded with a flared rim to the short neck and and raised on three cloud collar feet, the base
a band of flowers and leaf scrolls impressed bearing a six-character Qianlong mark in
around the widest part of the body, the gray- underglaze blue seal script; the second a pear
green glaze covering all surfaces except the shaped vase with cupped rim; the third a cong-
foot pad. form square-sectioned vase (rim ground); the
7 1/8in (18.2cm) high fourth a small meiping vase with iron-washed
rim; and a pair lotus leaf-shaped cups with
US$800 - 1,200 applied dragon handles (one with minor chip).
6 3/4in (17.1cm) diameter of dish
6 1/8in (15.5cm) height of tallest vase
US$1,200 - 1,800
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