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A blue and white globular bottle vase
Kangxi
Painted with one bird standing proudly on rockwork issuing branches
of heavy tree peony and delicate prunus buds covering the rounded
body and slender slightly flaring neck, wood stand.
31.5cm (12in) high (2).

£6,000 - 10,000 CNY59,000 - 99,000
HK$75,000 - 130,000

清康熙 青花山石花鳥紋天球瓶

Provenance 來源: H. R.Hancock & Sons, London
Bertil J.Högström Collection, Stockholm, no.11, acquired on
3 March 1967 (label)
S.Marchant and Son Ltd., London (label)
Roy Davids Collection, no.85, acquired on 1 November 2011

123
A blue and white bottle vase
Kangxi
Of pear shape rising to a tall flaring neck, painted with Chang E, the
Goddess of the moon, surrounded by her female attendants, one
holding a white rabbit and the others holding an osmanthus sprig, a
fan, a qin, a basin and a ruyi, all within a pavilion encircling wutong and
pine trees beneath undulating clouds and a moon.
36cm (14 1/4in) high

£5,000 - 8,000 CNY50,000 - 79,000
HK$63,000 - 100,000

清康熙 青花庭園仕女圖膽瓶

122 Provenance 來源: The Robert B.Mayer Familly Collection, Chicago,
Illinois
123 The Robert B.Mayer Memorial Loan Collection
120 | Bonhams Sold by J.T. Tai and Co. Inc., New York
Sotheby’s New York, 21 September 2005, lot 91, as one of a pair
Roy Davids Collection, no.62, purchased from S.Marchant and Son,
London, on 11 September 2008

Exhibited 展出: The Montreal Museum of Art, 1976-1981
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1981-2005

S.Marchant and Son, Recent Acquisitions, 2006, no.38, as one of a

pair (label)

There are several legends around Chang E, the Goddess of the moon.
One of the stories describes her stealing the pill of Immortality that
was given to her husband Hou Yi, Lord Archer. Due to the Immortality
pill she then floats up to the moon with a hare as her companion. The
present lot shows Chang E with the hare and other attendants.

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A blue and white slender baluster vase
Chenghua six-character mark, Kangxi
Painted in brilliant tones of underglaze blue with a continuous scene
of a dignitary greeting a lady, surrounded by five female musicians
and other figures in a pavilion terrace, set amid pine and wutong
trees growing from rocky outcrops, all beneath three bands of circles,
stylised scrolls and key-fret.
46.2cm (16 3/4in) high

£10,000 - 15,000
HK$130,000 - 190,000
CNY99,000 - 150,000

清康熙 青花人物故事圖觀音尊 青花「大明成化年製」楷書款

Provenance 來源: a Dutch private collection
S.Marchant and Son Ltd., London

Roy Davids Collection, no.74, acquired on

17 November 2008 (label)

Exhibited 展出: S. Marchant and Son, The Grosvenor House Antiques
Fair, London, no.55