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A fahua-type double gourd vase A Cizhou-type deep bowl A large cream glazed shallow
16th century Song/Ming Dynasty bowl
The globular body decorated in yellow, Carved to the interior with a large stylised Qing Dynasty or later
aubergine and turquoise lead glazes with flowerhead and scrolling leafy stems, beneath The heavily potted vessel covered in a creamy
raised slipwork depicting poets and scholars a triple banded border, a small splash of green crackle-suffused glaze with faint tinges of
relaxing in a landscape, the waist and neck glaze to the centre, the cream crackled glaze blue, the exterior with bands of applied ‘drum
embellished with foliate meanders and foliate falling short of the foot to the exterior. nail’ bosses beneath the curved rim and
lappet bands. 31cm (12.1/4in) diam. above the foot, the thick creamy glaze falling
41.5cm (16 1/4in) high short of the centre revealing a large area of
£800 - 1,200 thinly transparent glaze encircled within six
£3,000 - 5,000 CNY7,600 - 11,000 HK$9,500 - 14,000 large spur type marks, the base unglazed.
CNY28,000 - 47,000 HK$35,000 - 59,000 42cm (16.1/2in) diam.
For a simliar example dated circa 1522-66 £2,000 - 3,000
see J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the CNY19,000 - 28,000 HK$24,000 - 35,000
British Museum, British Museum Press 2001,
p. 414, no. 13:10.
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