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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE TANKARD A GROUP OF BLUE AND WHITE WARES
Chongzhen, circa 1640 A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘RED CLIFF’
The tapering cylindrical vessel finely painted DISH 16th/17th century and later
with two young scholars conversing in a Buyi tang zhi four-character mark, Kangxi Comprising: a blue-glazed bowl and cover
garden, the scene framed between lappet Finely painted with a landscape, with a with fish-scale pattern; a blue-glazed bowl; a
border at the foot and a foliate band at the scholar visiting the site on a sampan, the deep bowl painted with a landscape; a square
mouth, flanked with a loop handle. reverse with further landscapes; together with box and cover; a saucer dish with kingfisher
19cm (7.5in) high a famille verte dish enamelled with a short- and water reeds; a dish with lotus and cranes;
tailed bird perched upon a single prunus and a saucer dish with a landscape and
£1,500 - 2,000 branch. crane.
CNY13,000 - 17,000 HK$15,000 - 20,000 15.8cm (6 1/4in) diam. (2). The largest dish: 35cm (13 3/4in) diam. (7).
Provenance £1,200 - 1,500 £1,000 - 1,500
Purchased from Hopkins, Oxford, in the mid CNY10,000 - 13,000 HK$12,000 - 15,000 CNY8,600 - 13,000 HK$10,000 - 15,000
1950’s, by repute.
Provenance For detailed provenance, see Bonhams.com
For a comparable example, dated c. 1635- The Red Cliff dish: purchased from Robert
44, in the British Museum collection, see J. McPherson, London, 9 July 1970.
Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British The famille verte dish: with Hopkins, Oxford,
Museum, London 2001, p. 359, 12:11. by repute.
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