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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE OVIFORM JAR A RARE BLUE AND WHITE KO-SOMETSUKE ‘LUDUAN’
Late Ming Dynasty INCENSE BURNER
The rounded body rising from a flaring foot, decorated with four panels Early 17th century
of gentlemen and scholars in riverside gardens and mountainous Robustly potted, the mythical beast standing four-square, with a bell
landscapes on a ground of scrolling flowers and foliage and smaller at the chest and a curled upswept tail at the rear, the bulbous body
landscape panels, the foot with scattered blossoms and waves. painted in cobalt blue with large coin on each side on a scale-pattern
35cm (13 3/4in) high. ground, the chest decorated with prunus-flower heads on a speckled
ground, standing on four scale-pattern legs, with a later metal cover,
£1,000 - 1,500 Japanese wood box. 11cm (4 3/8in) long. (3).
CNY9,100 - 14,000
£1,200 - 1,500
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 CNY11,000 - 14,000

明晚期 青花開光山水人物圖大罐 Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

The designs on the present lot are possibly taken from woodblock 十七世紀早期 青花甪端式薰爐
prints of popular stories that proliferated in the late Ming period and
reflect an era of social change and economic prosperity. See a similar The present lot belongs to a select group of wares modelled in the
blue and white jar and cover, late Ming dynasty, which was sold at form of luduan that were produced during the Wanli period. Luduan,
Sotheby’s London, 15 June 2020, lot 9. an auspicious creature with the ability to traverse vast distances in
a day and to master all languages, was said to appear only in areas
where a virtuous leader was present. Compare with a related but larger
blue and white incense burner and cover, in the form of a mythical
beast, early 17th century, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, which was acquired from Sotheby’s New York, 20 March 2018,
lot 451.

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