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PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 1991; and a third example, from the Edward T. Chow collection
A RARE WUCAI GU!SHAPED VASE was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 19th May 1981, lot 434,
WANLI MARK AND PERIOD and later included in The Leshantang Collection of Chinese
Porcelain, Taipei, 2005, pl. 23.
of square section, supported on a splayed foot rising to a
Blue and white decorated versions were also produced; see
bulging mid-section below a broad everted rim, the exterior one sold twice at Christie’s London, 15 December 1980, lot
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painted with square panels each enclosing a scholar beneath 124, and again, 10 April 1984, lot 515; and another sold in our
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a tree, divided on the canted corners by sprays of lotus and Hong Kong rooms, 5 October 2016, lot 111.
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between lingzhi sprays, the neck with a striding Þ ve-clawed
dragon chasing a ‘ß aming pearl’ amidst scrolling clouds ಴ £ 40,000-60,000
and ß ame scrolls, all above a key-fret band at the base, the HK$ 442,000-665,000 US$ 56,500-84,500
interior with sprays of lingzhi crowned by trefoil leaves, the
base inscribed with a six-character reign mark within double ׼ຬ዇ ʞ੹ؒ௕ॶ૭ྡʬ↉⋧
squares
13.8 cm, 5½ in. ɽ׼ຬ዇ϋႡ‘ಛ
A vase of this type, in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo,
is illustrated in Tôji taikei, vol. 43, Tokyo, 1960, pl. 85; a
fractionally smaller example, painted with sinuously writhing
dragon and phoenix on the neck, from the Tsui Art Foundation,
illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976,
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pl. 928, was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 10 April 2006,
lot 1778 and again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 31 May 2010, lot
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