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                                                                                                   VARIOUS PROPERTIES

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                                                                                                   A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE BOWLS
                                                                                                   KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

                                                                                                   Each bowl is decorated on the exterior with
                                                                                                   two blossoming prunus trees against a washed
                                                                                                   background, all between bands of ‘cracked ice and
                                                                                                   prunus’ pattern, which is repeated in a medallion
                                                                                                   in the center and at the rim of the interior. An
                                                                                                   apocryphal Chenghua mark is inscribed on
                                                                                                   each base.

                                                                                                   7√ in. (20 cm.) diam.           (2)
                                                                                                   $6,000-8,000

                                                                                                   清康熙 青花冰梅紋盌一對

                                                                                       1200        1200
                                                                                                   A BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
310
                                                                                                   17TH CENTURY
                                                                                                   The exterior is decorated with six faming Buddhist
                                                                                                   wheels between decorative borders. The interior
                                                                                                   is similarly decorated. The base is inscribed with a
                                                                                                   Jiajing six-character mark in underglaze blue.
                                                                                                   5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam.

                                                                                                   $5,000-7,000

                                                                                                   A similar Jiajing-marked bowl was sold at
                                                                                                   Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 22 May 1985, lot 83.
                                                                                                   明十七世紀 青花輪花紋盌
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