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AN YIXING FINGER CITRON-FORM A SMALL PAIR OF SLIP-DECORATED A RARE YIXING INCENSE BURNER
WATER DROPPER AND WASHER YIXING BOTTLE VASES AND A RARE Xuande six-character impressed mark,
18th century YIXING THUMB RING Republic Period
With a larger washer vessel formed as a 19th century Modelled after a bronze incense burner, the
stylised ‘Buddha’s Hand’ fragrant fruit, Each vase with a compressed globular body bombé body flanked with dragon-form loop
issuing from a leafy branch and flanked with rising to a tall waisted neck, the exterior handles, the clay of a speckled brown hue
a smaller fruit-form water dropper with an decorated with vigorously painted floral with a subtle texture.
aperture, Japanese wood box. sprays in a buff coloured slip; the cylindrical 17.5cm (6 7/8in) wide
14cm (5 1/2in) wide (2). thumb ring formed from purple clay, zisha,
and with a lighter band to the exterior. £800 - 1,200
£3,000 - 5,000 The vases each: 10cm (4in) high (3). HK$8,300 - 12,000
HK$31,000 - 52,000 CNY7,100 - 11,000
CNY26,000 - 44,000 £800 - 1,200
HK$8,300 - 12,000
CNY7,100 - 11,000

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. ASIAN ART - PART I | 91