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A WUCAI SLEEVE VASE, GU A PAIR OF WUCAI JARS AND COVERS A WUCAI ‘MANTOUXIN’ BOWL AND A
Shunzhi Shunzhi BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
The upper section decorated with a phoenix Each decorated with striding Buddhist lions Kangxi
resting on a rock in a blooming garden, the amongst large peony blooms and densely The first decorated to the interior with
mid-register and lower section with fruiting scrolling foliage. 29cm (11.1/2in) high. (4). polychrome lotus blooms above underglaze
and blossoming branches. 41cm (16 1/8in) blue ruyi motifs encircling a central raised
high £1,500 - 2,000 flower-head panel, the exterior with lanterns
CNY13,000 - 18,000 and beribboned twin fish and chime pendants;
£1,500 - 2,000 HK$15,000 - 19,000 the second with Buddhist lion and peony
CNY13,000 - 18,000 decoration, apocryphal Jiajing six-character
HK$15,000 - 19,000 mark. 13.3cm (5.1/4in) and 17.2cm (6.3/4in)
diam. (2).
A similar vase is illustrated by Sir Michael
Butler and Prof. Wang Qingzheng, Beauty’s £1,000 - 1,500
Enchantment, Seventeenth-century CNY8,800 - 13,000
Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai HK$9,700 - 15,000
Museum and the Butler Collection, Shanghai:
Shanghai Museum; London: Scala, 2006, Provenance: The wucai bowl with label
p.169, no.50. reading ‘Kitchener Collection’, inventory
number 171.

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