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MONOCHROMES
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A PROMINENT BAY AREA PROPERTY FROM THE FAMILY OF LESTER KNOX LITTLE,
COLLECTOR LATE INSPECTOR GENERAL, CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS
SERVICE, ACQUIRED IN CHINA PRIOR TO 1949
9319
A CHESTNUT GLAZED POTTERY MARTABAN JAR 9323
Ming dynasty TWO SMALL MONOCHROME GLAZED PORCELAIN VASES
Of elongated and inverted pear form, the shoulder applied in high The first of flattened baluster form and ovoid section with projecting
relief with a dragon and clouds and the lower neck with eight foliate- flanges on the neck, a pair of mock animal head and ring handles
form loops, the golden brown glaze stopping along the rolled rim and on each shoulder, the recessed base bearing an impressed six-
above the base. character Yongzheng mark (chipped); the second a meiping covered
35 1/4in (89.5cm) high with a transmutation red glaze applied to the exterior walls, the
recessed base covered with a crackled celadon glaze (edge of foot
US$1,000 - 1,500 pad polished).
6 1/2 and 6 7/8in (16.5 and 17.5cm) high
9320 US$1,500 - 2,500
A LONGQUAN CELADON CHARGER WITH IMPRESSED
DECORATION PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
Ming dynasty
Thickly molded with a raised edge to the barbed rim and shallowly 9324
recessed ribs to the shallow well centered with an impressed TWO CELADON GLAZED GU-FORM VASES
peony flower and leaf roundel, the exterior walls also molded with The smaller, 18th century, carved with banana leaves on the neck
recessed ribs and a pale olive green glaze applied everywhere except and tall foot and a band of overlapping ruyi scepter heads encircling
the cinnamon-burnt firing ring on the recessed base (glaze layer the bulbous mid-section (chips, rim ground); the larger, Qing dynasty,
abraded). displaying similar banana leaf decoration combined with mock animal
13in (33cm) diameter head and ring handles and a band of stylized kui dragons encircling
the mid-section (drilled and mounted as a lamp base).
US$2,000 - 3,000 9 1/8 and 10in (23.2 and 25.5cm) height of vases
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NORTHWESTERN COLLECTOR US$1,000 - 1,500
9321 9325
A SMALL LONGQUAN CELADON CHARGER TWO MOUNTAIN-FORM BRUSH RESTS WITH CELADON
Ming dynasty GLAZE
Thickly molded with a raised edge to the rim flange and shallowly The larger molded with deep perforations in the five joined peaks
recessed ribs along the curving walls of the well, the exterior walls covered with a densely crazed and stained gray-green glaze that
smoothly finished and all surfaces covered with a well-preserved olive stops unevenly along the edge of a flat base with impressed seal
green glaze except a cinnamon-burnt firing ring within the recessed reading jing wei tang zhi; the second showing five comb-shaped
base (minor surface abrasion). mountain peaks rising from a curved base molded in delicate relief
11in (28cm) diameter with flowering branches, all visible beneath the gray-green glaze also
ending unevenly above the flat base (old chip to base).
US$1,500 - 2,500 6 3/4 and 4in long (17 and10cm) long
PROPERTY PURCHASED BY AN AMERICAN FAMILY LIVING IN US$800 - 1,200
CHINA FROM 1933-1937, BY REPUTE
9322
A GROUP OF EIGHT COBALT GLAZED DISHES IN VARIOUS
SIZES
19th century
Including four deep dishes with similar thickly potted walls and a
white rim in contrast to the cobalt wash across the well and exterior
walls; two dishes with similar flared rims to the thickly potted walls,
one of them bearing a six-character Qianlong mark in underglaze
blue seal script (chipped); and two thinly potted dishes with russet-
burnt glaze along the rims, one a deep dish with flared rim bearing a
six-character Qianlong mark in underglaze blue seal (star crack), the
other with a flared rim and bearing a six-character Jiaqing mark in
cursory seal script (chipped).
10 38 to 7 1/2in (26.2 to 19cm) diameters
US$800 - 1,200
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