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A GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED BLUE AND AN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND A LARGE UNDERGLAZE RED-PAINTED
WHITE ‘BOYS AT PLAY’ DOUBLE GOURD POLYCHROME PIERCED OCTAGONAL CONICAL STONEWARE BOWL
VASE PLAQUE South China or Vietnam, possibly 16th century
Chongzhen Probably late Ming Dynasty The exterior painted in the Kraak style
The sturdily potted vessel painted on the lower Decorated with a confronting dragon and in copper pigment with bird-and-flower
body with a charming scene of boys playing as phoenix in a fenced garden with bamboo, cartouches amidst wan brocade and scaly
warriors astride wheeled toy horses in a fenced flowering plants and pierced rockwork. 12cm pattern bands above a continuous scene of
terrace, the slender upper section with craggy (4.3/4in) wide. birds alighting above flowering peonies, the
cliffs issuing from tumultuous waves, mounted interior with a wide scrolling floral band on
as a lamp around the mouth and foot. Including £1,000 - 1,500 hatched pattern, the pigment fired a deep red
mount: 42cm (16 1/2in) high CNY8,800 - 13,000 and acidic green, all on a creamy crackled
HK$9,700 - 15,000 glaze. 35cm (13 3/4in) diam.
£1,000 - 2,000
CNY8,800 - 18,000 £1,000 - 1,500
HK$9,700 - 19,000 CNY8,800 - 13,000
HK$9,700 - 15,000

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TWO BLUE AND WHITE ‘VAJRA AND
LOTUS’ BOWLS
Ming Dynasty
Each painted to the interior and exterior with
scrolling, large-headed lotuses, the interiors
with a double-vajra in a central medallion. The
largest: 14.8cm (5 5/8in) diam. (2).

£700 - 1,000
CNY6,200 - 8,800
HK$6,800 - 9,700
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