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Compare with a similar hexagonal wine pot and cover, 17th century, A RARE BLANC-DE-CHINE GROUP OF A SEATED SCHOLAR
illustrated by J.Ayers, Blanc De Chine: Divine Images in Porcelain, New AND LADY
York, 2002, p.69. Another very similar hexagonal ewer and cover was 18th century
part of the collection of Queen Mary II before her death in 1694 and Elegantly modelled with a lady playing the qin for her male companion,
the lady sitting cross-legged exposing slightly her bound left foot, clad
is in Hampton Court Palace, see A.Lane, ‘Queen Mary II’s Porcelain in heavy robes cascading to the floor, her coiffured hair meticulously
Collection at Hampton Court’ in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic incised, both seated at a square table with an incense burner, vase,
Society 1949-50, vol.50, pl.8c. See an illustration of the same piece and bowl of peaches on top, all covered in an ivory-white glaze.
by J.Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of 17cm (66 /8in) high.
Her Majesty the Queen, Volume I, London, 2016, p.157. See also
P.J.Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, London, 1969, p.121, where the author £15,000 - 25,000
notes that such a pot was inventoried in Augustus The Strong’s CNY130,000 - 220,000
collection at Dresden before 1721 as ‘No.1’ in his list of ‘tea things’. 十八世紀 德化白瓷高士賞樂擺件

Provenance: Chait Galleries, New York (label)
Vanderven & Vanderven Oriental Art, s-Hertogenbosch (label)

來源： 紐約古董商Chait （標貼）
荷蘭斯海爾托亨博斯古董商Vanderven & Vanderven Oriental Art （標貼）

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