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A MATCHED PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE TWO BLUE AND WHITE SLEEVE VASES, A BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER VASE, GU
BEAKER VASES AND COVERS GU Kangxi
Kangxi Kangxi The cylindrical body finely painted with three
Each tall vessel raised on a short foot, One painted with butterflies and flowering registers, the flaring trumpet neck with a
painted in a cross-hatched pencil-drawn plants, the other with formal leaf lappets and servant presenting a court headdress to a
style with floral sprays enclosed in lappets, flowerheads, wood stands; and two blue and standing scholar, the bulging mid-section
the domed lid similarly decorated and with a white ‘prunus and cracked ice’ jars, wood with butterflies, lingzhi and orchid sprays, the
bud-shaped knop. covers and stands. The vases 19cm (7.1/2in) spreading foot with five elderly sages divining
Each: 25cm (9 3/4in) high (4). high. (10). a tai ji motif on a scroll. 50cm (19 5/8in) high
£1,500 - 2,000 £1,200 - 1,500 £1,000 - 1,500
HK$15,000 - 20,000 HK$12,000 - 15,000 HK$10,000 - 15,000
CNY13,000 - 18,000 CNY11,000 - 13,000 CNY9,000 - 13,000
Provenance
Sir William Henry Wilkinson (1858-1930),
Consul General in China between 1900 and
1917, and thence by descent.

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