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A COBALT GLAZED DISH A LONGQUAN GLAZED ‘PHOENIX TAIL’ VASE, FENGWEIPING
18th century Ming dynasty
The dark blue wash applied on the exterior walls and short foot Thickly potted with a trumpet neck and body of inverted pear form
beneath a colorless glaze that continues across the wide curving well that flares outward toward the foot, the two sections carved in
and the recessed base with a square maker’s mark in underglaze shallow relief with opposing branches of peony flowers separated
blue drawn within a double ring (chips, rim ground). by a band of dissolved cloud scrolls incised at the neck and another
8 1/8in (20.7cm) diameter of upright petals above the base, the craze-filled blue-green glaze
applied to all surfaces except the foot pad (chip, rim ground down).
US$1,000 - 1,500 17 1/8in (43.5cm) high
9344 US$1,500 - 2,500
A GROUP OF SIX PORCELAIN CONTAINERS
18th century and later Provenance
The first a small celadon glazed ovoid jar with flowering branch acquired from a Christie’s, London in the 1990s, by repute
decoration executed in raised white slip (lacking cover); a pair of blue
and white soft paste porcelain jars painted with peonies, a garden 9348
rock and fence, each base inscribed tian enclosed within a double A SMALL SKY BLUE GLAZED LONG NECKED VASE
ring (lacking covers); the fourth a small celadon glazed baluster vase Kangxi mark, 19th century
with carved peony flower decoration and iron wash applied to the The cylindrical neck rising from a compressed globular body raised
recessed base and foot; and a pair of tazza form stem dishes with on a tall spreading foot and covered on the exterior with a pale blue
barbed rims, each painted in bright colors of the famille rose palette wash beneath a colorless glaze covering all surfaces except the
(wear to enamels). thick foot pad, the recessed base bearing the six-character mark in
7 1/2in (19cm) diameter of the stem dish underglaze blue standard script.
6 1/8in (15.5cm) high
US$2,000 - 3,000
US$1,000 - 1,500
Provenance
Almira Goodsell Rockefeller (1844-1920), wife of William A. BLUE AND WHITE WARES
Rockefeller Jr. (1841-1922), and thence by descent, by repute
An American private collection
9345 PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
A TRANSMUTATION GLAZED STICK NECK VASE,
TIANQIUPING 9349
19th century A BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-HEADED VASE WITH FIGURAL
Stoutly potted with a slightly waisted neck rising from a body of DECORATION
compressed ovoid form, the scarlet red glaze on the exterior walls Late Qing/Republic period
suffused with opalescent blue patches, the interior of the neck and Of pear form with a compressed globular mouth and raised on a tall
recessed base covered with a crazed creamy-white glaze (outer edge foot, painted with an episode from a legend or novel of a bearded
of foot polished). emperor or high official seated before floor screen in a garden
14in (35.5cm) high watching a young mother with her baby and a servant while a young
official stands behind a garden rock secretly observing the group; the
US$1,500 - 2,500 shallow recessed base painted in underglaze blue with a double ring
(glaze frits along foot).
9346 17 3/4in (45cm) high
A CELADON GLAZED FLORIFORM BOWL
Xuande mark, Kangxi period US$1,000 - 1,500
Its flared rim cut into eight lobes that conform to the upper tier of
flower petals incised onto the exterior walls beneath the gray green 9350
glaze that stops at the exterior foot, the recessed base covered A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL-SECTIONED
with a colorless glaze and bearing the six-character mark written in BALUSTER VASES
underglaze blue standard script within a double ring (repaired and Qianlong marks
repainted). Each thickly potted and painted with flowering branches around the
7 3/8in (18.7cm) diameter waisted neck that alternate with auspicious fruit branches on the
tapering body, the recessed base bearing the six-character mark
US$1,200 - 1,800 in underglaze blue seal script and all surfaces except the foot pad
covered with a celadon-tinged glaze.
13 3/4in (35cm) high
US$1,000 - 1,500
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