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FOUR GLAZED POTTERY DECORATIONS A BISCUIT GLAZED FIGURE OF A MONK
Tang dynasty Late Qing/Republic period
Consisting of a pair of water buffalo standing foursquare on a Seated with his head bowed in meditation and holding a rosary in his
rectangular plinth, on with sancai and blue glaze the other blue and right hand resting on bended knee, together with a molded crackle-
straw glaze; a blue glazed attendant standing with eyes downcast, and glazed tripod censer showing water serpents above waves.
a yellow glazed figure of a dwarf. 4 3/4in (12.2cm) high; 3 3/4in (9.5cm) high (2).
5 1/8in (13cm) high, 6 1/2in (16.5cm) long (2); 8in (20.2cm) and 3
7/8in (9.8cm) high (4). $1,000 - 1,500
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A GROUP OF EIGHT SMALL PORCELAINS AND THREE
85 MINIATURE METAL OBJECTS
A PAIR OF SANCAI GLAZED BARREL-FORM SMALL STOOLS Qing dynasty and later
Ming style, 19th century Including three reverse blue and whited decorated porcelains: a
Each barrel-form stool molded with four lion-mask lugs set evenly mountain-form porcelain rush rest, a diamond-shaped vessel, and a
between two rows of raised bosses at the base and below the top, lingzhi head-form vessel; a robin’s egg glazed shallow porcelain brush
covered overall with a chestnut, blue and aubergine glaze, the foot washer molded with a twin-fish design to the interior floor, a peach-
burnt red in the firing. bloom glazed porcelain water coupe, three small porcelain bird feeders
9 1/4 (23.5cm) high (2). decorated in underglaze blue or in enamels, and three miniature gilt
metal decorations: a square seal, a model of a Buddhist lion, and a
$800 - 1,200 seated figure of Budhai.
4 1/4in (10.7cm) length of porcelain brush rest (11).

$1,000 - 1,500

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