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TWO PORCELAIN WALL VASES
’Landscape’ wall vase: Republic period;
‘Bird and flower’ wall vase: mid-20th century
Comprising a compressed baluster-form wall vase with a spreading
foot, broad body, and waisted neck, the shoulders molded with a
pair of beast-head mock handles, the principal side centered by a
shaped cartouche enclosing a landscape dominated by blue and green
mountains and boulders, all against a turquoise-enameled ground
densely textured with tiny bosses and accented with gilt-painted
floral details in relief, the base with a reserved square enclosing an
apocryphal four-character Qianlong seal mark in iron red, the reverse
enameled turquoise and with a recessed notch for suspension; and
a ‘clair de lune’-glazed baluster-form wall vase, the body painted in
overglaze enamels with bird perched on blossoming prunus branches,
the neck with a poetic inscription in overglaze black enamel, the reverse
with a recessed notch and four pierced apertures for suspension.

4 3/4in (12cm); 6 3/4in (17.1cm) high (2).
$2,000 - 3,000
Provenance:
Sara Fredericks (1903-1986), likely acquired in the 1960s in New York,
thence by descent

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