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A LARGE DOUCAI ‘EIGHT BUDDHIST
EMBLEMS’ SQUARE VASE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY
of baluster form with a splayed foot and waisted neck,
densely decorated to the body with the auspicious emblems
surrounded by leafy ower scrolls, all between a band of
upright lappets and stylized orets, the neck encircled by
formalized foliate scrolls, the foot with pendent ruyi heads,
the base with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark in
underglaze blue
Height 19⅜ in., 49.3 cm
$ 10,000-15,000
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