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105 Provenance 來源: Desmond R.Laurence Collection, no.237 (label)
A blue and white octagonal baluster vase Roy Davids Collection, no.88
Tianqi
Attractively painted depicting a continuous scene of an Imperial figure The image illustrates stories from Daoist mythology in which rulers offer
with attendants holding fans and standards, all opposite a figure their thrones to men of humble origins who invariably decline to accept
bowing in respect beside a landscape of rocks, trees, plants and walls the offer.
interrupted by swirling clouds, all between a lotus-leaf border at the
neck and pendent leaf border at the base. A related vase of similar size and shape is illustrated by S.Little,
32cm (12 1/2in) high Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period: 1620-1683, Dartmouth,
1983, p.78, no.28.
£3,000 - 5,000
HK$38,000 - 63,000 CNY30,000 - 50,000
明天啟 青花人物故事圖八方瓶
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