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A CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE WINE POT AND COVER
MID 17 CENTURY
TH
Formed as a hexagonal-section gourd, two sides moulded with flowering
prunus branches, the cover with a flower-shaped knop and set in silver-gilt
mounts which join to the loop handle forming a hinge, 13cm.
£2,000-3,000
Cf. D S Howard, A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong, p.82,
no.87 for a comparable ewer with recessed panels.
767
TWO CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE MODELS OF HORSES AND
THREE WHISTLES
KANGXI 1662-1722
The horses depicted standing on rectangular bases, one with a paper label for
Pierre Saqué, the largest whistle formed as a standing European gentleman
holding a bird at his chest, another modelled as a foreigner seated on a
dragon, the third in the form of a European riding a crouching tiger, 9.5cm. (5)
£1,000-1,500
Provenance: the horses formerly in an important French private collection,
purchased from Pierre Saqué, Paris. The smallest whistle formerly in the collection
of Jacques and Galila Hollander, Belgium.
Cf. The Victoria & Albert Museum, museum no.3357-1853 for a similar blanc de
Chine horse.
768
A NEAR PAIR OF CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE ‘BAXIAN’ WINE CUPS
18 CENTURY
TH
Each with a flared body moulded with the Eight Immortals and raised on four
short feet, one with a faint square seal mark to the base, 7.7cm and 8.2cm. (2)
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