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AN YIXING FINGER-CITRON SHAPED A YIXING ‘WATER BUFFALO’ TEAPOT A GROUP OF ELEVEN VARIOUS BLUE
TEAPOT AND COVER AND COVER AND WHITE AND UNDERGLAZE BLUE
20th century Qing Dynasty AND RED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLES
With gnarled leafy branch form handle, and Of compressed rounded form with 19th/20th century
smaller finger citron finial, impressed two- recumbent water buffalo finial, incised to the Comprising: four blue and white snuff bottles
character seal to the cover interior reading ‘ exterior with a seated gentleman and boy with Yongzheng marks, three with stoppers;
錦甫 Jinfu’. approaching a buffalo, the reverse inscribed, a blue and white and underglaze red snuff
21cm (8.1/4in) long. (2). seal to cover interior ‘利用公司 Liyong bottle with Yongzheng mark; three blue
gongsi’, ‘大生 Dasheng’ and to the base ‘利 and white snuff bottles variously decorated
£500 - 800 用公司圖製 Liyong gongshi tu zhi’ with landscapes and magpies and prunus,
HK$4,900 - 7,800 22cm (8.5/8in) wide across the spout and one with stopper; two underglaze red
CNY4,400 - 7,100 handle. (2). snuff bottles, one painted with dragons,
the other with phoenix; and an underglaze
Provenance £2,000 - 3,000 blue and red bottle with dragons emerging
Quek Kiok Lee Collection (1921 – 2018), HK$20,000 - 29,000 from clouds, jadeite stoppers; and a wucai
Singapore, and thence by descent CNY18,000 - 27,000 ‘hundred boys’ bottle, Qianlong seal mark,
Acquired at China Craft, 14 May 1975. stopper.
Provenance The tallest: 7.8cm (3in) high (12).
Quek Kiok Lee Collection (1921 – 2018),
Singapore, and thence by descent £800 - 1,200
Acquired from the Exhibition sale at Hotel HK$7,800 - 12,000
Shangri-la, 14 May 1978. CNY7,100 - 11,000
Provenance
Quek Kiok Lee Collection (1921 – 2018),
Singapore, and thence by descent

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