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A BLUE AND WHITE EPITAPH TABLET
Ming Dynasty, cyclically dated by inscription
‘Auspicious Day of the Winter Twelfth Month
of the bingchen Year of the Jiajing Period’
(1556-7)
Decorated with an upper frieze depicting
confronting phoenix amongst cloud scrolls,
flanking a flaming pearl, above one horizontal
and sixteen vertical lines of calligraphy, the
reverse unglazed.
29.25cm (11.1/2in) long.

£800 - 1,200
CNY7,100 - 11,000
HK$8,800 - 13,000
The title inscription may be read and
translated as:
ming gu zubi huang ruren tong xianbi cheng
ruren mufen ji
‘Memorial Grave Inscription Elucidating the
histories of my Deceased Grandmother Lady
Huang, and of my deceased Mother Lady
Cheng, (who is buried with her).

For a circular tomb epitaph see ‘Yuan and
Ming Blue and White ware from Jiangxi’,
The Art Museum, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, 2002, no. 101; and a rectangular
50 epitaph in the same exhibition, no. 113.

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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE ‘LOTUS’
BOWL
Hongzhi
Decorated to the interior and exterior with
undulating, leafy lotus stems, the exterior with
borders of whorl motif lappets and scrolling
foliage.
38cm (15in) diam.

£1,000 - 1,500
CNY8,800 - 13,000
HK$11,000 - 16,000

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