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PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS PROPERTY FROM THE H ROBERT LEE 3344
ESTATE TWO MONOCHROME PORCELAINS
3337 The first a yellow glazed dish incised in
A TALL MIRROR BLACK GLAZED 3341 dragon and smoke motifs to the well and
BALUSTER VASE A TRANSMUTATION GLAZED OVOID around the exterior sides, the recessed
19th century VASE WITH ELEPHANT HEAD HANDLES base bearing a six-character standard script
Stoutly potted with a flared rim to the long neck Of ovoid form with a slightly everted mouth Xuande mark; the second an ovoid vase
and a body of inverted pear form flaring outward rim, the sides and handles covered in a glaze incised in similar subject matter and covered
above a set-in foot ring, the shiny black glaze of streaked blue, violet, crimson and cream in an aubergine glaze and bearing a six-
covering the exterior walls while the interior and hues, all supported by a raised foot rim character standard script Chenghua mark
the recessed base within the foot ring display a surrounding the recessed base covered in a (cracks).
celadon-tinged glaze (chips to foot rim). colorless glaze. 7 1/2in (19cm) diameter of dish
22 1/2in (57cm) high 8 1/4in (21cm) high 7 1/4in (18.4cm) height of vase
$2,500 - 4,000 $1,200 - 1,800 $2,000 - 3,000
3338 Provenance 3345
A COPPER RED GLAZED DEEP DISH purchased Bonhams, San Francisco, sale TWO SMALL DEHUA PORCELAIN
Daoguang six-character mark and of the 19250, 30 August 2011, lot 6313 (originally VESSELS
period one of a pair) 19th century
Its curving well and exterior walls covered The first a small bombe form censer molded
with a dark ‘liver red’ wash that thins along PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS to support opposing beast head handles
the flared rim to expose the underlying white (rims possibly ground down, firing cracks); the
body beneath a colorless glaze, the recessed 3342 second a libation cup of unusual compressed
base centered with the six-character mark in A TRANSMUTATION GLAZED OVOID ovoid form supported by a molded foot
underglaze blue seal script (hairline cracks, VASE, MEIPING formed as a gnarled branch.
mouth and foot rims restored). Qing dynasty 2 1/8in (5.4cm) height of second and taller
8 1/4in (21cm) diameter The standard shape comprised of a small $1,200 - 1,800
$1,000 - 1,500 waisted mouth surmounting globular
shoulders raised atop a narrow base, the 3346
PROPERTY FROM THE H ROBERT LEE exterior surfaces covered in mottled hues of A LARGE DEHUA FIGURE OF GUANYIN
ESTATE sky blue and violet atop a cleanly sliced set-in He Chaozong mark
foot ring encircling the recessed base covered The voluptuous feminine form elaborately
3339 in a persimmon color enamel (substantially bejeweled and attired, holding a pearl aloft in
A COBALT BLUE GLAZED VASE, MEIPING restored, drilled). her right hand while her left supports a lotus
19th/20th century 12in (30.5cm) high blossom, all raised upon a plinth molded in
Heavily potted with a high rounded shoulder $1,200 - 1,800 crashing waves and lotus pods, the back of
and waisted body, the cobalt layer covering her hip bearing the impressed four-character
the exterior beneath a colorless glaze applied 3343 maker’s mark within a square cartouche, as
to all surfaces except the foot pad. A RED GLAZED CUP well as a double gourd shaped mark possibly
14in (35.6cm) high Qianlong mark reading Dehua (crack to plinth).
$1,000 - 1,500 Of inverted domical shape beneath an 19in (48.2cm) high
everted rim, the exterior sides covered in an $5,000 - 7,000
Provenance uniform almost ruby-red color, the interior and
purchased Bonhams, San Francisco, sale recessed base both covered in clear glaze, PROPERTY FROM A PENNSYLVANIA
18013, 10 March 2010, lot 8152 the latter bearing the six-character mark in COLLECTION
blue seal script.
PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE 3in (7.6cm) diameter 3347
COLLECTION OF ERICH A. HEINRICHS, $3,000 - 5,000 A DEHUA STANDING FIGURE OF
CHICAGO, IL GUANYIN
He yin Chaozong square seal mark,
3340 19th/20th century
A TRANSMUTATION RED GLAZED The elegant figure standing on a rocky
FANGHU shore, one foot resting on swirling waves,
Late Qing/Republic period her diminutive body draped with a mugwort
Of rectangular section with indented corners, cape over a lotus decorated collared bodice
supporting lug handles at the neck above the and belted long skirt, her chest and wrists
flared body adorned in raised peach shapes adorned with jewelry as she grasps a basket
on the opposing faces above the tall foot, of fish resting on a rockwork plinth beside her,
the predominantly scarlet exterior surfaces the figure reversed by an impressed seal.
streaked in lines of dark blue, violet and clear 9 3/4in (24.6cm) high
glazes, stopping along the unglazed foot and $1,200 - 1,800
deeply recessed unmarked base.
12in (30.5cm) high
$2,000 - 3,000
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