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Property from Various Owners 7248 Property from a Canadian
A blue and white porcelain bowl collector
7247 Ruosheng zhencang mark, Kangxi period
A blue and white dragon dish Formed with a wide curving well and raised 7249
Chenghua mark, 18th century on a tall foot, the interior centered with the A blue and white baluster vase
The floor of its curving well centered with a drunken poet Li Bai seated next to his wine Kangxi period
front-facing dragon surrounded by flames barrel and a diapered band below the rim, the Molded with a flared rim to the tall trumpet
and clouds, the cavetto painted with carp reverse depicting a scholar on horseback and neck, the body of inverted pear form
and waves and the exterior walls with further his servant with baggage riding away from spreading outward above a set-in foot ring,
wave patterns, the recessed base bearing the a woman in her wheel chair surrounded by the towering landscape view on the upper
six-character mark inscribed in underglaze servants, the four-character mark inscribed half inhabited by a solitary scholar and his
blue regular script within a double ring and all in seal script within a double ring and all servant while a boatman passes behind the
surfaces except the foot pad covered with a surfaces glazed except the foot pad. towering cliffs in the lower landscape, the
celadon-tinged glaze. 7 3/8in (18.7cm) diameter lustrous glaze covering all surfaces except the
7 3/4in (19.8cm) diameter $2,500 - 4,000 foot and the recessed base bearing the date
$2,500 - 4,000 Kangxi 6th year and inscription zhi hou ren
Provenance wu ke [xiu] followed by the name Zhang Hao
paper oval label on base printed E & J Frankel incised into the glaze.
Collection with inked no. 109 18 1/2in (47cm) high
$20,000 - 25,000
A bowl with very similar decoration and body,
dated as Kangxi mark and of the period,
sold in Christie’s, Amsterdam, sale 2637, 2
November 2004, lot 119.
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