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TWO PAIRS OF ENAMELED BOWLS PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF RICHARD PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF RICHARD
19TH / 20TH CENTURY LEHMAN GRAY LEHMAN GRAY

the rst pair decorated with magpies among A GROUP OF ‘DEHUA’ VESSELS A ‘DEHUA’ MODEL OF WEIQI
prunus owers on yellow ground, six-character QING DYNASTY, 17TH 19TH PLAYERS IN A GROTTO
Guangxu marks; the second pair with dragons CENTURY QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
in pursuit of ‘Flaming Pearls’, six-character
Xuantong marks (4) comprising a European subject joss-stick holder; modeled to depict the scene of Wang Zhi and the
Diameter of larger 5½ in., 14.1 cm a cylindrical snu bottle; a jarlet; an ‘Immortals’ two weiqi players, the woodcutter standing over
snu bottle, stoppers; a ‘crustaceans’ lamp; and the gamesboard with two players seated on either
$ 2,000-3,000 a small libation cup modeled after an archaic jue; side, the gures backed by a gnarled owering
stand (9) tree
⋩ḅġİġḴ⋩ᶾ䲨ġġġ⼑䒟䙴ℑ⮵ Diameter of lamp 3½ in., 8.9 cm Height 4 in., 10.2 cm
℞ᶨ⮵烉˪⣏㶭⃱䵺⸜墥˫㫦
℞Ḵ⮵烉˪⣏㶭⭋䴙⸜墥˫㫦 PROVENANCE PROVENANCE
The lamp:
Collection of Judge W. E. Cunningham, Kansas. Ralph M. Chait, New York.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, 2nd November 1979,
lot 375 (part lot). See a closely related example in the Hickley
Collection, illustrated in Rose Kerr and John
Ⴚ$ 1,000-1,500 Ayers, Blanc de Chine: Porcelain from Dehua,
Chicago, 2002, pl. 35; and two similar examples
㶭⋩ᶫ军⋩ḅᶾ䲨ġġġ⽟⊾䘥慱䒟ᶨ䳬 but lacking blossoms, one in the collection of Dr.
C.M. Franzero, illustrated by P.J. Donnelly, Blanc
de Chine, London, 1969, pl. 105B; the other in
Robert H. Blumen eld, Blanc de Chine: The Great
Porcelain of Dehua, Berkeley, 2002, pl. 86C.

$ 2,000-3,000
㶭⹟䅁ġġġ⽟⊾䘥慱䌳岒䇃㞗⚾㒢ẞ

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