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A LONGQUAN CELADON LARGE SAUCER DISH                                     A CRACKLE GLAZED WHITE WARE VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
Ming                                                                     Probably 19th century
The flat rim with foliate form edge above a cavetto with wave and lotus   The elegantly potted pear-shaped vase with low foot and flared
designs around a central design of a temple above waves, (hairline       mouth, covered with a finely cackled ivory coloured glaze, the foot
crack and associated rim chip),                                          slightly ground,
41cm diameter                                                            23.5cm high

£600 - 800                                                               £300 - 400

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A PAIR OF CELADON JARS                                                   A CAFÉ-AU-LAIT MALLET VASE
Yongzheng painted marks and impressed CHINA, post 1893                   Bearing Kangxi six-character mark
Each with carved ruyi head border over birds in scrolling foliage,       Of yaoling zun [hand bell vase] form covered with an even brown glaze
(covers lacking, converted to lamps),                                    which thins to ochre at the mouth and stepped shoulder,
porcelain height 20cm                                                    23.5cm high

£1,000 - 1,500                                                           £500 - 800

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A GILT AND POWDER BLUE VASE AND A PAIR OF LATER                          A BLACK-BURNISHED EARTHENWARE STEM CUP
EXAMPLES                                                                 Neolithic period, Longshan culture
An 18th century baluster vase decorated with traces of gilt floral spray  Thinly potted as a flaring bowl raised on a hollow and pierced stem
and butterflies on dark blue ground, 18.5cm high, and with wooden         above a shallow domed base (restored break),
cover, together with a pair of later ovoid vases with trumpet necks and  15.5cm high
bright blue exteriors,
each 20.5cm high                                                         £300 - 500

£250 - 350                                                               Compare a similar stem cup sold at Bonhams New Bond St, London,
                                                                         11 November 2010, lot 392.

                                                                         Provenance: The collection of the late Professor G.R. Coope.

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