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TWO SMALL BLUE AND WHITE SQUARE
BOXES AND COVERS

MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
The larger box is decorated on the fattened cover
with a lady standing beside an incense burner
in a garden scene, and the box is decorated with
various treasures. The smaller box is decorated
on the cover with a seated scholar, and the box is
decorated with foral sprays.
2º in. (5.7 cm.), 1 æ in. (4.5 cm.) diam., Japanese
wood boxes

(2)
$4,000-6,000

明十六/十七世紀 青花人物紋小方盒兩件

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE PEACH-FORM
EWER

CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
The peach-shaped ewer is decorated on each side
in vibrant shades of blue with two peaches and
blossoming branches, the body is surmounted by
a fared lotus-form mouth, fanked by an upright
S-scroll spout and a C-scroll handle joined to the
body with applied leaf-form struts.
7æ in (12 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

$10,000-15,000

The present ewer is notable for its peach-form, as
well as the charming and naturalistic decoration
of fruits and leaves issuing from the twisted
trunk which forms the stem. Compare a related
teapot decorated with similar fying insects
and fruiting, leafy branches, recovered from the
Hatcher shipwreck (circa 1643), sold at Christie’s
Amsterdam, 14 March 1984, lot 56, and illustrated
by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British
Museum, London, 2001, p. 360, no. 12:17. See,
also, a peach-form ewer, also recovered from
the Hatcher shipwreck, and illustrated by M.
Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain: Famille
Verte, Famille Rose, London, 1987, p. 15. pl. 2.
明崇禎 青花桃式執壺

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