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A CHINESE WUCAI GOURD-SHAPED VASE, A CHINESE COPPER-RED ‘DRAGON’ SEAL PASTE
HULUPING BOX AND COVER
19 CENTURY FOUR CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK AND
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Painted with two lion dogs amidst large flowerheads and POSSIBLY OF THE PERIOD
scrolling leaves, one of the beasts picked out in aubergine Of circular form, the cover painted with
enamel, the other in green, 15.8cm. two five-clawed dragons contesting
£300-400 a flaming pearl, with crashing waves
encircling the foot, 7.7cm. (2)
Provenance: from the collection of Mr E D Robert Stone
QC decd. £200-300
788 792
A CHINESE YIXING SQUARE-SECTION TEA A CHINESE BLUE GLAZED OVOID VASE AND
CANISTER AND COVER COVER
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18 CENTURY EARLY 19 CENTURY
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Each facet decorated in relief with a bird swooping down The exterior decorated with a thick mottled lavender-blue
towards a prunus tree, with a further two birds below, glaze which stops short of the foot, the base, interior and
all reserved on a finely incised key fret ground, the body underside of the cover glazed white, 23.5cm. (2)
surmounted by a short metal neck, with a dragon in pursuit £200-300
of a sacred pearl to the cover, 24.5cm. (2)
£200-300 793
A CHINESE BLUE GLAZED CONG
Cf. Yixing Zisha Wares, 15th November 2011, lot 43 for a LATE QING DYNASTY
pair of similar canisters from the Arthur J Harris Collection
sold in these rooms; see also C J A Jörg, Chinese Ceramics Decorated all over in a pale lavender-blue glaze, the base
in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Ming with a six character Yongzheng mark, 27cm.
and Qing Dynasties, pp.250-251, no.288 for another related £200-300
example.
794
789 A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE MOULDED DISH
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE MOULDED VASE KANGXI 1662-1722
KANGXI 1662-1722
Painted with panels enclosing figures in landscapes and Painted to the centre with floral sprays and with stylised
blossoms to the moulded cavetto, the reverse with a
precious objects, all reserved on a cracked-ice ground, with conch shell mark, 21.2cm.
boys and flowers painted to the flared neck, 28.9cm.
£200-300 £100-200
Provenance: from the collection of James Haydock Esq and
790 thence by descent.
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ‘THREE FRIENDS
OF WINTER’ JAR 795
WANLI 1573-1620 A CHINESE JUN-TYPE DISH
The ovoid body painted with pine, prunus and bamboo, QING DYNASTY
with a bird in flight above, the short cylindrical neck Coated in a crackled blue glaze with hints of lavender, the
decorated with upright leaves, with a drill hole to one side, shallow body raised on a short biscuit foot, with a paper
21cm. label to the interior, the base with another paper label and
impressed seal wax, 5.5cm.
£200-300
£200-300
Provenance: from a deceased estate, Dorset.

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