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PROPERTY FROM THE H ROBERT LEE PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT 3369
ESTATE BRITISH HSBC EXECUTIVE, ACQUIRED A CELADON GLAZED STICK-NECK VASE
BEFORE 1975 IN HONG KONG WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND WHITE
3361 SLIP DECORATION
A BLUE GLAZED OVOID VASE WITH GILT 3365 Late Qing dynasty
DECORATION A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE SMALL The tall neck and globular body painted
Yongzheng mark PLATES in underglaze blue on a white slip ground
Surmounted by a tall waisted cylindrical neck Chenghua marks, Kangxi period depicting a scholar, beauty and military figure
and raised upon a cylindrical foot, the exterior Each displaying a flat rim filled with flower heads meeting under a tree, the gray-green glaze
surfaces covered in an elaborate ground of and leafy scrolls, the floor of the well centered covering the interior and exterior, the recessed
vine and lotuses and other stylized repeating with a dragon chasing a flaming pearl and the base covered with a colorless glaze (chip,
gilt horizontal bands, the clear glazed exterior walls displaying eight characters in hairline crack).
recessed base bearing the seal script six seal script, the recessed base bearing the six- 16 3/4in (42.5cm) high
character mark in underglaze blue. character mark written in regular script within a $1,200 - 1,800
9 3/4in (24.8cm) high double ring (tiny glaze frits).
$800 - 1,200 6 3/8in (16.2cm) diameter 3370
$1,200 - 1,800 A BLUE AND WHITE LONG NECKED
PROPERTY FROM XANADU GALLERY, VASE WITH DRAGON DECORATION
SAN FRANCISCO 3366 Kangxi mark, late Qing/Republic period
A SET OF TWELVE EXPORT STYLE BLUE The neck rising from a globular body with
3362 AND WHITE DINNER PLATES a raised string band along the shoulder
A BLUE AND WHITE KENDI 18th century and resting on a tall foot, the two dragons
17th century Each painted on the canted rim flange with six confronting a flaming pearl amid clouds all
Made for the Southeast Asian market with floral reserves separated by hexagonal diaper drawn across the surfaces in ink blue outline
an everted rim to the columnar neck painted patterns, the well filled with a scene of three against a mottled cobalt reserve ground, the
with flowering stems, the mammiform spout huntsmen on horseback pursuing game, recessed base bearing the six-character mark
with clouds and the globular body with a the reverse painted with stylized landscape in underglaze blue standard script.
continuous landscape (rim and spout repaired vignettes and a conch shell mark drawn within 15 1/4in (38.8cm) high
and retouched). a double ring to the center of the recessed $1,000 - 1,500
8in (20.2cm) high base (minor wear to glaze, a few with pin-
$1,000 - 1,500 point nicks along the rims). 3371
9 1/4in (23.5cm) diameter A BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER VASE
3363 $1,000 - 1,500 Yongzheng mark, late Qing/Republic period
A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE BOWLS Molded with a raised string band bisecting
MADE FOR THE JAPANESE MARKET, Provenance the wasted neck and a body of inverted pear
KO-SOMETSUKE purchased from Vanhall Antiques Ltd., Victoria, form rising from a flared foot, painted in cobalt
17th century British Columbia, Canada, April 24, 1973; wash and outline with two spotted deer to the
Each potted with an everted rim, upright walls before 1972, by repute, from a private left of pine trees, lingzhi fungus, peonies and
tapering sharply inward above a carefully cut collection of Chinese porcelain in Amsterdam, exotic palms growing amid fantastic rocks,
and unglazed foot pad and recessed base, the Netherlands the shallow recessed base bearing the six-
the interior well centered with a depiction of character mark in underglaze blue seal script
Kuixing and the dipper constellation above PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS (rim ground down).
an inscribed placard, the motif repeated with 14 1/8in (36cm) high
different inscriptions along the exterior walls 3367 $1,500 - 2,000
(tiny glaze frits and chips). A PAIR OF UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND
6in (15.2cm) diameter COPPER RED LIDDED GINGER JARS PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MS.
$1,000 - 1,500 Of compressed globular shape surmounted NAOMI LINDSTROM, SAN FRANCISCO,
by cylindrical lids, the exterior surfaces CALIFORNIA
PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER covered in Three Friend of Winter motifs of
pine, bamboo, and prunus all rendered in 3372
3364 blues of grayish hue and pinkish reds; the A BLUE AND WHITE DEEP DISH
A BLUE AND WHITE RECTANGULAR recessed bases unmarked (kiln flaws). 16th century
VESSEL 6 3/4in (17.2cm) high Painted with egrets and lotus plants across
Qianlong mark $2,000 - 3,000 the floor of the well and further lotus plants
Centered by a circular aperture to the top, the rising above waves along the curving sides,
remaining sides covered in a dense ground 3368 the exterior painted with repeated flowering
of scrolling vine and chilong patterns in A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE STEM CUPS branches extending out from rocks, the
underglaze blue, the recessed base bearing Qianlong marks celadon-tinged glaze stopping along the
the six-character mark in seal script. The everted mouth rims potted above exterior foot, leaving the foot pad and shallow
3 1/2in (9cm) high concave sides raised upon trumpet-form feet, recessed base unglazed (exterior rim repaired
$1,000 - 1,500 the exterior surfaces covered in an elaborate and retouched).
ground of scrolling vine and lotus patterns 12 3/4in (32.5cm) diameter
encircling siddham characters above stylized $2,000 - 4,000
lotus petal and jeweled bands encircling the
base, bearing the six-character marks written
horizontally right to left along the interior of the
foot rims (chips).
3 3/4in (9.5cm) high
$4,000 - 6,000
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