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A BAMBOO ‘PINE AND CRANES’ LIBATION CUP A BLANC-DE-CHINE ‘CRAB’ WATER DROPPER
17th/18th century 17th century
Of naturalistic form, modelled as a knotted trunk section, carved in Modelled as a crab resting on a large unfurled lotus leaf, a smaller
openwork with two cranes perched on gnarled branches. lotus-leaf receptacle on its back, the spout extending from the lotus-
12cm (4 3/4in) long. stem foot. 13.5cm (5 1/4in) wide.

£1,000 - 1,500 £600 - 800
CNY9,100 - 14,000 CNY5,400 - 7,200

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十七/十八世紀 竹雕松鶴紋盃 十七世紀 德化窯白釉螃蟹式硯滴

See a similar bamboo ‘pine trunk’ libation cup, Kangxi, illustrated by See a similar blanc-de-Chine ‘crab’ water dropper, Ming dynasty,
S.Kwan, Ming and Qing Bamboo, Hong Kong, 2000, no.58, where it is illustrated in Dehua Wares Collected by the Palace Museum II, Beijing,
noted that ‘the shape of the cups that followed the style of rhinoceros 2016, p.538, no.247.
horn cups became standardised after the mid and late Kangxi periods.
Most of them had designs of old pine trees’.
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A BLANC-DE-CHINE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER AND A
584 BLANC- DE-CHINE BOTTLE VASE
A BAMBOO ‘PRUNUS’ LIBATION CUP 17th century
17th/18th century The cylindrical incense burner on three bracket feet, covered overall
Of tapering naturalistic form, carved in relief with gnarled branches of with an ivory-white glaze and exposing the unglazed pale cream body,
densely-blossoming prunus. 12.7cm (5in) wide. 10.3cm (4in) diam.; and the bottle vase with a scaly chilong encircling
the neck, the bifurcated tail trailing down the body, 15cm (5 7/8in)
high. (2).
£800 - 1,200
CNY7,200 - 11,000
£1,500 - 2,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 CNY14,000 - 18,000

十七/十八世紀 竹雕梅紋盃 Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

See a related bamboo ‘prunus’ libation cup, Kangxi, illustrated by 十七世紀 德化窯白釉三足爐 及德化窯白釉盤螭長頸瓶 各一
S.Kwan, Ming and Qing Bamboo, Hong Kong, 2000, no.60. The
author notes that ‘The most common designs on bamboo rhinoceros See a related vase illustrated by P.J.Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, London,
horn-shaped cups, were those of old pine trees. Plum and bamboo- 1969, pl.19, fig.A (left); and another by U.Wiesner, Seladon Swatow
leaf designs are rare.’ Blauweiss: Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Ignazio Vok,
Zurich, 1983, no.44.

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