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PROPERTY FROM THE MONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART, 9168
SOLD TO BENEFIT THE MUSEUM FUNDS A YELLOW GROUND PLANTER WITH FAMILLE ROSE
DECORATION
9166 Late Qing/Republic period
A POLYCHROME ENAMELED BALUSTER VASE Potted with a canted rim over a deep curving well and painted on
19th century the exterior with peach branches, bats and shou medallions in bright
Thickly potted with a trumpet neck and a curving body, covered with opaque enamels against the yellow sgraffiato ground, the interior
swirling water drawn in iron red as the ground to dragons, fish and partially glazed and the base drilled with a drainage hole (rim repaired,
other fantastic creatures swimming above rocks and waves rendered lacking underdish.
in black outline and bright enamels, the recessed base centered with a 13in (33cm) high
double ring in underglaze blue.
17 1/4in (43.9cm) high US$1,500 - 2,500

US$1,200 - 1,800 9169
A POLYCHROME DECORATED FOOTED BOWL
PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS Jiaqing mark, late Qing/Republic period
The fluted rim surmounting a body of elongated quadrilobate section
9167 raised on a high foot, the exterior covered in grisaille floral motifs and
A WUCAI BALUSTER VASE iron-red dragons on a yellow ground above further grisaille vine and
Transitional period lotus motifs encircling the turquoise enameled foot, the underside
The high slightly waisted mouth rim covered in floral sprigs and bearing the six-character mark in iron red (minor kiln flaws).
surmounting the body of inverted pear-shape, the exteriors covered 4in (10cm) high
in a continuous figural tableau of beauties in a garden setting, the flat
base unglazed (substantially damaged and restored). US$1,200 - 1,800
13in (33cm) high
9170
US$1,500 - 2,500 NO LOT

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