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A ‘DEHUA’ BEAKER VASE                               PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF RICHARD             PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
DATED GUANGXU GUIWEI YEAR,                          LEHMAN GRAY
CORRESPONDING TO 1883                                                                                   A CELADON GLAZED ‘TRIGRAM’
                                                    A ‘DEHUA’ FIGURE OF DAMO                            VASE
the raised central section rising from the splayed  QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH                           XUANTONG MARK AND PERIOD
base to a aring neck, with a central row of         CENTURY
applied trigrams between a band of shou and ruyi,                                                       of cong form, each side molded with bagua
the base with applied magpie and prunus and         modeled standing on a at rockwork base with         arranged in two columns, applied overall with a
an incised oral motif, the neck with an incised     arms folded and turned slightly to the right, in    sea-green glaze, the base with a six-character
dedicatory inscription and the cyclical date        thickly draped robes open at the chest and falling  mark in underglaze blue
Height 10½ in., 26.6 cm                             in layers over the bare feet, the facial features   Height 11 in., 28.1 cm
                                                    and ears clearly de ned with brows and beard in
A closely related example was sold in these         tight curls                                         $ 5,000-7,000
rooms, 28th September 1979, lot 275, and a          Height 11 in., 27.9 cm
similar but slightly smaller example was sold in                                                        㶭⭋䴙ġġġ䰱曺慱ℓ⌎䲳䏖⺷䒞
our London rooms, 19th November 1974, lot 25.       PROVENANCE                                          ˪⣏㶭⭋䴙⸜墥˫㫦

$ 4,000-6,000                                       Sotheby’s London, 9th July 1974, lot 315.
                                                    Rare Art, Inc., New York.

㶭⃱䵺䘠㛒⸜炷1883⸜炸ġġġ                                    $ 2,000-3,000
⽟⊾䘥慱╄ᶲ䚱㡊⚾ℓ⌎⢥⫿䲳剙如                                    㶭⋩ℓġİġ⋩ḅᶾ䲨ġġġ⽟⊾䘥慱忼㐑䩳⁷

柴嬀烉⃱䵺䘠㛒⢷㖍嘆Ⱉ䭉⺷ↅ⹝柴⎍

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