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                                                                                                                       PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND COLLECTION

                                                                                 A SMALL MOLDED ‘YAOZHOU’ CELADON-
                                                                                 GLAZED ‘CHRYSANTHEMUM’ BOWL
                                                                                 NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

                                                                                                              of conical form with an everted rim and resting on a low knife-
                                                                                                              pared foot, the interior with a central stylized owerhead
                                                                                                              medallion encircled by an undulating leafy stem issuing three
                                                                                                              large and three small chrysanthemum blooms, the exterior
                                                                                                              incised with radiating lines, covered in a dark olive-green glaze
                                                                                                              pooling to a darker tone in the recesses, wood stand (2)
                                                                                                              Diameter 4⅜ in., 11.1 cm

                                                                                                       $ 4,000-6,000

                                                                                           ⊿⬳ġġġ侨ⶆ䩘曺慱⌘丷㝅卲剙䲳⮷䙴

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PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND COLLECTION                                 1040

THREE SMALL CELADON-GLAZED VESSELS                                     A ‘JIAN’ BLACK-GLAZED ‘HARE’S FUR’
SONG / MING DYNASTY                                                    BOWL
                                                                       SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY
comprised of a compressed globular-form jar and cover, the
 tted cover with a molded lotus ower, all covered in a crackle-        well-potted with deep rounded sides rising from a short
                                                                       straight foot to an indented rim, covered overall with a lustrous
su used bluish-green glaze; a ‘Longquan’ celadon tobi seiji            dark blackish-blue glaze with ecking, the thick drops short of
stem cup, wood stand; and a Guan-type pear-shaped ewer with            the bu -colored foot
grayish-green crackled glaze, wood stand (6)                           Diameter 5⅛ in., 12.9 cm
Height of tallest 3½ in., 8.7 cm
                                                                       PROVENANCE
PROVENANCE                                                             H.H. Pao Collection, Toronto.
The stem cup: Walter Hochstader, New York, 1942. Falk
Collection no. 188.                                                    $ 2,000-3,000
The ewer: Falk Collection no. 176.
Collection of Pauline B. (1910-2000) and Myron S. (1906-1992)          ⋿⬳ġġġ⺢䩘湹慱⃼㮓䲳䙴
Falk Jr., New York, no. 176.
Christie’s New York, 21st September 2001, lot 475.

EXHIBITED
The ewer: Early Chinese Miniatures, China Institute of America
/China House Gallery, New York, 1977, cat. no. 200.

$ 3,000-5,000

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