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A PAIR OF DEHUA ‘CRANE AND LYRE’
513 CUPS
210 | BONHAMS Late Ming Dynasty, c. 1640-1660
Each tripod vessel thinly potted with an
elegantly flaring rim, delicately incised with a
poem to the reverse and a crane and lyre to
the obverse, covered overall in a glassy, ivory-
white glaze, the base with a maker’s mark;
together with the original S. Marchant & son
catalogue.
Each 10cm (3 7/8in) wide (3).

£1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,200 - 14,000
HK$11,000 - 16,000

Provenance
With S. Marchant & Son, London, 2006.
Collection of Commander T.M. Blake formal
British naval officer (1930-1947), when he
retired to become a farmer in Hampshire.

Illustrated
S. Marchant & Son, Blanc de Chine, London,
2006, p.147, no.112.

Exhibited
S. Marchant & Son, Blanc de Chine, London
2006.

Each inscribed: jin ri song jun xu jin zui, which
could be translated as: ‘We must all get drunk
at this farewell party’.

Similar cups with the same marks have
been illustrated by P.J. Donnelly, Blanc
De Chine, London, 1969, no. 34A and
by Rose Kerr and John Ayers, Porcelain
from Dehua: A Catalogue of the Hickley
Collection, Singapore, 2002, nos. 118 and
119. Donnelly records the mark as that of the
potter ‘Tsu Hsin’, whilst Gerald Davison, who
also records it in his handbook of marks on
Chinese Ceramics, no.1652, reads it as ‘Diao
Yan’, Compassion.

513
A PAIR OF BLANC-DE-CHINE
ARCHAISTIC INCENSE BURNERS
Kangxi
Each set on three raised beast mask and paw
feet, applied with twin clambering chilong
handles, the body with a central incised key
fret pattern band below a band of archaistic
motifs in relief, the shoulder with four lug
handles.
15.5cm wide across the handles. (2).

£800 - 1,200
CNY7,300 - 11,000
HK$8,800 - 13,000

Provenance
Bluett & Sons London (label to the base of
one vessel)