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A MINIATURE BLUE AND WHITE ‘EAGLE AND PINE’ BALUSTER AN ASSOCIATED PAIR OF EGGSHELL BOWLS
VASE Cyclically dated xinyou year (AD1981), youxiacai (Liling Qun li) seal
Yongzheng seal mark, attributed to Wang Bu, circa 1920-25 mark, one signed Zhang Zhen, the other signed Li
The globular body finely painted with a powerful eagle perched in a Each enamelled on the thin, rounded sides with birds perched on
gnarled pine tree, box. 7cm (2 3/4in) high (2). flowering tree branches, the reverse with short poetic inscriptions, box.
Each: 13.5cm (5 3/8in) diam. (3).
£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000 £1,000 - 1,500
HK$22,000 - 33,000 CNY8,800 - 13,000
HK$11,000 - 16,000
Provenance
Purchased from Peter Wain on 28 November 2009 (receipt, where the Provenance
vase is called ‘possibly the work of Wang Bu’ and dated c.1920-25.) Li Yuemei, Capital Gallery, Hong Kong
Dominic Jellinek, 1999
Illustrated Bonhams New Bond Street, The Anthony Evans Collection of Later
P Wain, Heavenly Pieces, 1993, p. 7, pl. 35. Chinese Porcelain, 10 November 2011, lot 613. (receipt)

The artist Li has not been clearly identified as an individual, but the
owner has suggested that he might be the same as the Hunan birds
and flowers painter Li Kaiyun (b.1920).

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