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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE WARMING BOWL, ZHUGE WAN A LONGQUAN CELADON TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER AND A
Lu shi wan chung four-character mark, 16th century RARE WOOD FIGURE OF GUANDI
Finely painted with a group of robed gentlemen paying obeisance to 17th century and earlier
a seated official within a walled pavilion, the exterior with sprays of The censer covered in a thick pea-green glaze, raised on three beast
fruiting melon and squirrels, raised on a short foot rim, with a small mask feet; the wooden figure of the God of War carved seated on
aperture to the base. a throne, wearing long robes and holding a high belt, the manner
14.2cm (5 1/2in) diam. resembling contemporary Dehua models.
The figure: 28cm (11in) high (2).
£1,000 - 2,000
CNY8,600 - 17,000 HK$10,000 - 20,000 £1,000 - 1,500
CNY8,600 - 13,000 HK$10,000 - 15,000
Provenance
Acquired from Bluett & Sons, 9 February 1979. Provenance
The dish: purchased from George Horan, London, 28 September 1976.
For a similar bowl, dated c.1573-1620, see J. Harrison-Hall, Ming
Ceramics in the British Museum, London 2001, p. 309, 11:87.

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