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9236 PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE SEATTLE COLLECTOR
A PAIR OF CLOISONNÉ GU-FORM VASES
20th century 9241
Each inlaid with bands of composite lotus flowers and curling leaves A TRANSPARENT BLUE GLASS STICK-NECK VASE
encircling the trumpet neck, pear-shaped central knob and domed Guangxu four-character mark and of the period
foot using bright colors on the turquoise ground, the exposed metal Of simple form with a cylindrical neck rising above the body of
surfaces washed in gilt (minor war to gilt). compressed and inverted pear form, the circular recess at the base
12 1/4in (31cm) high engraved with the four-character mark enclosed within a square (rim
ground).
US$1,200 - 1,800 8in (20.2cm) high

9237 US$2,000 - 3,000
A PAIR OF HARDWOOD BRUSH POTS
Qing dynasty PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
Each of slightly concave section and raised on three pad feet with
beaded lip and foot rim, the wood well figured and polished to a 9242
lustrous sheen (separating age cracks, areas retouched). A LARGE MOLDED GOURD CRICKET CAGE
4 1/2 and 4 3/4in (11.4 and 12.1cm) high Guangxu mark
The gourd mounted with a wood lip and molded with a continuous
US$1,000 - 1,500 landscape scene of a scholar reading a book at the window of
his study in a rural mansion above the title Song Ling Gui Yin tu
9238 (returning to a hermit’s life in a pine forest), the base bearing a
A HARDWOOD BRUSHPOT molded four-character mark in standard script (lacking cover).
Cut with thick walls and slightly waisted body that follows the 8 1/2in (21.5cm) high
contours of the original trunk, the slightly concave base filled with
a separately cut plug filling the aperture at the center (age cracks, US$1,000 - 1,500
abrasion from use).
7 5/8in (19.4cm) high 9243
TWO PLUM BRANCHES CARVED FROM BOXWOOD
US$1,000 - 1,500 (HUANGYANGMU)
Each branch further undercut and carved with twigs bearing prunus
PROPERTY FROM A TUCSON ARIZONA PRIVATE blossoms and buds while retaining some of the contour of the
COLLECTION original branch.
23 1/4 and 20 1/4in (59 and 51.5cm) long
9239
AN INK STONE US$2,500 - 3,500
Qing dynasty
Of solid rectangular section and reddish hue, adorned in a raised 9244
relief mythical beast beside a convex ‘eye’ inclusion to the stone A BOXWOOD SCEPTER
above the recessed well; the underside incised in a lengthy poetic Deeply undercut with subsidiary twigs terminating in small fungus
ode bearing a seal and signature perhaps reading chen er lao and heads rising up the long handle that terminates in two large
bao below two larger archaistic characters perhaps reading Dong Ye conjoined fungus heads at the top.
(abrasions). 17in (43cm) long
6 1/2in (16.5cm) long
US$1,500 - 2,500
US$1,000 - 1,500

PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER

9240
A BOXWOOD CARVING OF A BEAUTY
Late Qing/Republic period
The standing figure posed holding a weiqi marker in her left hand
and a weiqi board supported on her right arm resting on a deeply
undercut tree trunk (repaired).
10 1/4in (26cm) high

US$1,000 - 1,500

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