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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 士紳藏品
Lots 125 - 136
125
AN YIXING HEXAGONAL TEAPOT AND COVER
Kangxi
Finely modelled after a European silver form, the
faceted globular body with applied moulded floral
sprays, flanked with a loop handle and spout,
raised on a short foot, the lid with wispy clouds and
hexagonal finial.
13cm (5 1/8in) across (2).

£1,500 - 2,000
CNY14,000 - 18,000

清康熙 宜興紫砂貼塑花卉紋六方茶壺

Provenance: Guest & Gray Ltd., London,
November 2009
An English private collection

來源：
2009年11月由倫敦古董商Guest & Gray所藏
英國私人收藏
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126
A BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE
Chongzhen
The bulbous body painted around the exterior in
vivid blue with a continuous scene of an attendant
holding a vase with three arrows before a dignitary
followed by attendants carrying fans, all beneath a
leafy scroll dividing the upper section painted with
floral sprays.
34.5cm (13 5/8in) high.

£5,000 - 7,000
CNY45,000 - 63,000

明崇禎 青花平升三級長頸瓶

Provenance: Sotheby’s London, 6 November 2013,
lot 101
An English private collection

來源：
2013年11月6日於倫敦蘇富比拍賣，拍品101號
英國私人收藏

The scene depicts an attendant carrying a vase
with three ‘halberds’ (ji 戟), which is a homophone
for ‘grade’ (ji 級). The vase with three halberds, is a
rebus for rising within the bureaucracy three grades
(lian sheng san ji 連升三級), embodying the yearning
of every scholar official in Imperial China.

A blue and white brushpot, circa 1635-1645, with
similar decoration of a man carrying a vase with
halberds or arrows is illustrated in Seventeenth
Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family
Collection, Alexandria, 1990, pl.42.
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