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An unusual creamy-white glazed soft paste ewer A Guan-type bowl
18th century 18th/19th century
Modelled as a lady seated before a caparisoned stag, with two upright The deep bowl covered in a ‘golden thread and iron wire’ double-
handles with twin apertures to its back, the figure clutching a floral crackled glaze, raised on a short footrim, the base with a four-
bouquet, flanked by a recumbent crane and monkey dressed in a character mark.
foliate apron, holding aloft a peach, wood cover. 12.9cm (5in) diameter
14cm (5.1/2in) wide. (2).

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

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A blanc-de-chine square baluster vase
386 Qing Dynasty or later
A Dehua figure of a Monk The tapering vase raised on a simulated scrolled base, each facet with
17th century a raised quatre-lobed panel incised with lotus, prunus, a scholarly
The meditating figure seated in padmasana atop a rocky plinth, the landscape, five seal script characters and two seals, the neck incised
body clad in a hooded robe, with his hands in dhyana mudra, the eyes with bamboo, below a key fret border.
downcast and with a contented expression; together with a Zhangzhou 29.5cm (11 5/8in) high
white ware lobed baluster vase with a flaring rim, the shoulders flanked
with characterful bats in high relief, 17th century or later. £800 - 1,200 HK$9,500 - 14,000
The figure: 36cm (14 1/8in) high CNY7,600 - 11,000

£600 - 800 HK$7,100 - 9,500
CNY5,700 - 7,600

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