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A pottery model of an ox and
cart and a model of a wild boar
Tang Dynasty
The ox standing four-square on a rectangular
base, the carriage and wheels with traces
of pigment, all mounted on a later wooden
frame; together with a press-moulded pottery
figure of a recumbent wild boar, wood stand.
The ox and cart together: 43cm (16 7/8in)
long (7).

£500 - 800 HK$5,900 - 9,500 356
CNY4,700 - 7,600

Provenance
The boar’s wood stand with a Sidney L.
Moss/81 Davies St. label.

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A celadon tripod incense burner
16th/17th century
The heavily potted vessel carved to the
exterior with large flowerheads, covered in a
slightly over-fired, vitrified pale green glaze,
the well and base unglazed.
30.5cm (12in) diam.

£500 - 800 HK$5,900 - 9,500
CNY4,700 - 7,600

For a similar example dated c.1550-1620 see
J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British
Museum, British Museum Press 1995, p. 496,
no. 16:88.

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A Longquan celadon tripod
incense burner
15th/16th century
The cylindrical vessel in the form an ancient
bronze lian, the exterior carved in relief with a
frieze of peony flowerheads and leaf fronds,
raised on three cabriole feet; together with
a blanc-de-chine libation cup with moulded
decoration, 17th/18th century, wood stand.
24.8cm (9 3/4in) diam. (3).

£1,000 - 1,500 HK$12,000 - 18,000
CNY9,500 - 14,000

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