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8184           PROPERTY FROM A BAY AREA COLLECTOR

8185           8184
               A PAIR OF GRISAILLE DECORATED WINE CUPS
8186           Yongzheng marks, Republic Period
116 | BONHAMS  Each painted with a landscape of two scholars walking toward a
               rural retreat amid rocks and trees on the shoreline of a water course
               with small boats, the scene drawn in shades of black with tiny details
               added in iron red, the recessed base bearing the six-character mark
               inscribed in underglaze blue standard script within a double ring and
               the rim striped in gilt.
               3 1/16in (7.7cm) diameter

               US$2,000 - 4,000

               8185
               A SMALL FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED CUP
               Yongzheng mark, Republic Period
               Of deep and inverted bell form, painted on the exterior with bees
               drawn to the scent of orchids in bloom and reversed by a fourteen-
               character poem in black enamel with rose-red seals, the recessed
               base bearing the six-character mark in underglaze blue standard script
               inscribed within a double ring.
               2 5/8in (6.8cm) diameter

               US$1,500 - 2,500
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