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A powder blue gilt-decorated bottle vase
Guangxu six-character mark and possibly of the period
Decorated with various gilt roundels of shou characters, flowers, birds,
taiji symbols, the shoulder with a raised band and painted with a lotus
meander, a lotus lappet band encircling the foot, the flaring mouth rim
with a ruyi-head border.
39cm (15 3/8in) high

£2,000 - 3,000 HK$24,000 - 35,000
CNY19,000 - 28,000

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An unusual teadust-glazed baluster vase
19th century
The body and neck finely fluted to resemble the folds of fabric gathered
together and tied with a ribbon moulded around the neck, the base
with a moulded yin-yang symbol, all covered with a finely speckled
dark green teadust glaze.
32cm (12 5/8in) high

£2,500 - 3,000 HK$30,000 - 35,000
CNY24,000 - 28,000

Compare a related teadust vase moulded as fabric tied at the neck 374
from the Sir A.W.Franks Collection (1826-1897), dated to the Qianlong
period, and now in the British Museum, no. Franks.1465.

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A pair of turquoise-glazed gilt-metal mounted
bamboo form vases
19th century
Each vase formed as a section of bamboo with further shoots moulded
in low relief to the exterior, all covered in a deep turquoise glaze,
mounted at the foot with gilt-metal brackets.
Each 13.8cm (5 3/8in) high (2).

£500 - 600 HK$5,900 - 7,100
CNY4,700 - 5,700

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