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                                                                               A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE ‘EIGHT
                                                                               IMMORTALS’ TRIPOD CENSER
                                                                               JIAJING PERIOD (1522-1566)
                                                                               The censer is decorated to the exterior with the
                                                                               Eight Immortals holding various attributes, with
                                                                               Shoulao seated on a rock holding a ruyi sceptre, all
                                                                               surrounded by pine trees and lingzhi sprigs within
                                                                               a fenced garden, below a band of bird and fower
                                                                               cartouches to the wasted neck. The vessel is
                                                                               supported on three animal mask-form feet.
                                                                               10Ω in. (26.7 cm.) diam.
                                                                               £4,000-6,000           $5,300-7,900
                                                                                                      €4,500-6,700

                                                                               PROVENANCE
                                                                               Collection of the late Soame Jenyns (1904-1976),
                                                                               then by descent within the family.
                                                                               明嘉靖 青花八仙圖三足爐
                                                                               來源:  英國學者詹甯斯(1904-1976)舊
                                                                               藏, 家傳至今






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                                                                               A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE BRUSH POT
                                                                               KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
                                                                               The brush pot is decorated to the exterior with a
                                                                               tranquil scene of two scholars and their attendant
                                                                               carrying a qin, beside a fsherman in a boat on a
                                                                               river, surrounded by a mountainous landscape and
                                                                               pavilions. The base is painted with an apocryphal
                                                                               Jiajing mark.
                                                                               5Ω in. (13.9 cm.) high
                                                                               £4,000-6,000           $5,300-7,900
                                                                                                      €4,500-6,700
                                                                               PROVENANCE
                                                                               Collection of the late Soame Jenyns (1904-1976),
                                                                               then by descent within the family.
                                                                               清康熙  青花山水人物圖筆筒

                                                                               來源:  英國學者詹甯斯(1904-1976)舊
                                                                               藏, 家傳至今







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