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7278 Property from a Sonoma County collection

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A pair of blue glazed bottle vases with gilt
7279A medallion decorations
Guangxu six-character marks and of the period
156 | BONHAMS The medallions scattered across the waisted necks and globular
bodies including auspicious characters, plants, animals and emblems
while shou-characters alternate with composite lotus and leaf sprays
within the raised borders on the neck, the powder blue ground also
applied on the interior neck and within the tall recessed base where
the mark appears on two vertical rows of dark blue regular script.
15 1/4in (38.7cm) high
$10,000 - 15,000

For similarly decorated vases from the Guangxu period, see the
example sold in Bonhams, Hong Kong, sale 21940, 27 November
2014, lot 175; and the bottle vase sold in Christie’s, Hong Kong, sale
3322, 28 May 2014, lot 3452 (15 3/8in, 39.2cm high). A similar vase in
the Nanjing Museum was published in Gongting Zhencang: Zhongguo
Qingdai Guanyao Ciqi (Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln
Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty), 2003, p. 482 (38.5cm high).
A comparable example in mirror black glaze in the National Palace
Museum, Taipei, was published by H. A van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of
the 19th and 20th centuries, 1977, Pl. 93, p. 74.

Property from a California Institution

7279
A pair of powder blue ground archaistic vases with
gilt decoration
Qianlong marks, Late Qing/Republic period
Each molded in the shape of a bronze zun with a waisted neck, raised
rib on the shoulder and a pair of animal head and mock-ring handles
on the ovoid body, the rich blue ground painted in gilt with auspicious
bats, shou-characters and composite flower heads issuing from leafy
tendrils while geometric diaper bands extend around the shoulder and
tall foot, the shallowly recessed base bearing the six-character mark in
underglaze blue seal script on a cobalt ground.
15 1/8in (38.5cm) high
$6,000 - 8,000

Provenance
each acquired in 1966 as per acquisition numbers X1966.1406.1 and
X1966.1406.2

7279A
A group of three biscuit-enameled porcelain brush
rests of mountain form
18th/19th century
Each displaying five peaks: the largest molded in raised relief with a
qilin and banana plant reversed by an ox looking at the moon while
straddling waves, the surfaces glazed in a combination of leaf green,
aubergine, yellow and colorless enamels, the foot pad and shallow
recessed base left unglazed; the second covered with aubergine
enamel on the five faceted peaks rising from a crescent-shaped flat
base that is unglazed; the last also displaying a curving profile to the
five faceted peaks glazed in amber enamel that rise from a reticulated
frieze of bats and vegetation colored in aubergine enamel, the flat
base also unglazed.
5 3/4, 5 1/4 and 4in (15.4, 13.2 and 10cm) long
$3,000 - 5,000

Provenance
acquired in 1966 as per acquisition number 1966.334