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A large famille verte dish, Kangxi period (1735-96)

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A large famille verte dish, Kangxi period (1735-96)

Lot 16. A large famille verte dish, Kangxi period (1735-96); 15 ¼ in. (38.7 cm.) diameter. Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000Price realised USD 43,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018

Vividly enameled with a ferocious battle scene, the reverse with underglaze blue artemesia leaf within double circle.

ProvenanceChait Galleries, New York.
Chinese Porcelain Co., New York..
Property of the Robert A. Landau Collection.

Christie's. Chinese Export Art Featuring 100 lots from Marchant, est 1925, 18 January 2018, New York

 


A large blue and white globular lotus jar and a cover, Qing dynasty, 19th century

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A large blue and white globular lotus jar and a cover, Qing dynasty, 19th century

Lot 28. A large blue and white globular lotus jar and a cover, Qing dynasty, 19th century; 20 ½ in. (52.1 cm.) high overall. Estimate USD 10,000 - USD 15,000Price realised USD 43,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018

Painted with large lotus blooms on meandering stems with curled leaves, the cover a marriage, stand.

ProvenanceAnonymous sale, Christie's New York, 26 October 1981, lot 232.
Stair & Co., New York.

Christie's. Chinese Export Art Featuring 100 lots from Marchant, est 1925, 18 January 2018, New York 

A set of twelve 'Rockefeller pattern' side plates, Jiaqing period, circa 1805

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A set of twelve 'Rockefeller pattern' side plates, Jiaqing period, circa 1805

Lot 189. A set of twelve 'Rockefeller pattern' side plates, Jiaqing period, circa 1805; 7 ¾ in. (19.7 cm.) diameter. Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 9,000Price realised USD 43,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018

Each vibrantly enameled with a unique Chinese fgure scene within gilt and sepia borders.

NoteThis richly decorated pattern known as ‘Rockefeller’ ever since John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874-1960) owned a service in it. 

Christie's. Chinese Export Art Featuring 100 lots from Marchant, est 1925, 18 January 2018, New York 

A famille rose fish bowl, Qianlong period, circa 1740

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Lot 129. A famille rose fish bowl, Qianlong period, circa 1740; 23 ½ in. (59.7 cm.) diameter, 16 ½ in. (41.9 cm.) high. Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000Price realised USD 40,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018

Finely enameled with a fenced garden showing birds hovering above peonies growing from rockwork, all between molded lion head handles, the interior with various carp and shellfish swimming amongst aquatic plants.

Provenancewith Ed Hardy, San Francisco. 
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 17 May 2005, lot 235.

MARCHANT, EST. 1925 (Lots 59-100 and 116-173)

NoteCompare with a pair from the collection of the late Alfred Morrison sold by order of the Rt. Hon. the Lord Margadale of Islay, Christie's London, 18 October 1971, lot 12. Another similar fishbowl, from the collection of Sir Philip Sassoon, is illustrated by G.C. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, pl, L111. These large-scale pieces were among the most expensive and important output of the export kilns.

Christie's. Chinese Export Art Featuring 100 lots from Marchant, est 1925, 18 January 2018, New York 

A boar's head soup tureen and cover, Qianlong period, circa 1760

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A boar's head soup tureen and cover, Qianlong period, circa 1760

A boar's head soup tureen and cover, Qianlong period, circa 1760

Lot 198. A boar's head soup tureen and cover, Qianlong period, circa 1760; 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm.) long. Estimate USD 30,000 - USD 50,000Price realised USD 37,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018

Naturalistically modeled with raised snout and staring eyes, the open mouth revealing teeth, tongue and fangs, glazed in iron-red, grisaille and famille rose.

ProvenanceThe collection of Florence Adele Sloane Burden of Manhattan and Long Island, New York. A great-granddaughter of Commodore Vanderbilt, Florence numbered among her cousins Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough. She traveled in Europe with Gertrude and with such friends as Helena Woolworth McCann and Henry du Pont, buying for her townhouse and for the house on Long Island, a Delano & Aldrich design built in 1913.
By descent through the family.
An American private collector.

NoteW.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, p. 202, notes that the records of the Dutch East India Company document an order of 25 boar's head tureens in the 1763 season. In 1764 nineteen were shipped home to Holland but a further order was not fulfilled because "the supercargoes considered them too risky." The animal tureen form was fashionable in Europe in the mid-18th century, when faience or soft-paste models were made at Strasbourg, Palissy, Chelsea, Höchst and other factories. A faience boar's head tureen made at Kiel in Denmark is illustrated by D.L. Fennimore and P.A. Halfpenny in The Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens at Winterthur, p. 173, as is a Chelsea example, p. 148, where the authors quote a Chelsea factory auction catalogue of March 18, 1755 listing "a very curious TUREEN in the form of a BOAR'S HEAD." Whether Chinese porcelain or European pottery, boar's head tureens must have made an impressive effect on the dining table, especially when filled with hot soup or stew emitting clouds of steam through the snout.

Christie's. Chinese Export Art Featuring 100 lots from Marchant, est 1925, 18 January 2018, New York

A blue and white phoenix-tail vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722)

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A blue and white phoenix-tail vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722)

 Lot 4. A blue and white phoenix-tail vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 18 5/8 in. (47.3 cm.) high. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000Price realised USD 32,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018

Decorated with two pairs of deer in a continuous landscape, wood stand.

Christie's. Chinese Export Art Featuring 100 lots from Marchant, est 1925, 18 January 2018, New York

A very large blue and white jar and cover, Kangxi period (1662-1722)

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A very large blue and white jar and cover, Kangxi period (1662-1722)

 Lot 6. A very large blue and white jar and cover, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 22 ¼ in. (56.5 cm.) high, overall. Estimate USD 15,000 - USD 25,000Price realised USD 32,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018

Decorated with rows of shaped petal-form panels enclosing vignettes and blossoming branches.

Christie's. Chinese Export Art Featuring 100 lots from Marchant, est 1925, 18 January 2018, New York

A very large blue-ground famille rose fish bowl, Qianlong period, mid 18th century

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A very large blue-ground famille rose fish bowl, Qianlong period, mid 18th century

Lot 49. A very large blue-ground famille rose fish bowl, Qianlong period, mid 18th century; 23 ¾ in. (60.3 cm.) diameter. Estimate USD 15,000 - USD 25,000Price realised USD 37,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018

Each side decorated with shaped panel enclosing phoenix among large peony blossoms, two applied gilt-metal beast head-handles with loose rings, the interior with carp, shrimp, crabs and sea plantlife.

ProvenanceWith Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

Christie's. Chinese Export Art Featuring 100 lots from Marchant, est 1925, 18 January 2018, New York


A rare iron-red and gilt ewer and hinged cover, Kangxi period (1662-1722)

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A rare iron-red and gilt ewer and hinged cover, Kangxi period (1662-1722)

 

Lot 63. A rare iron-red and gilt ewer and hinged cover, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 13 ¼ in. (33 cm.) high. Estimate USD 15,000 - USD 20,000Price realised USD 30,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018

Of Islamic metalwork form, the peach-shaped cover above a molded neck and a body delicately enameled with lilies flanking iron-red teardrop panels with lotus, with later Dutch silver mounts.

Provenance: A French private collection.
Acquired from The Collection of Bernardino Gomez (1944-2006), Ader, Paris, 7th June 2006, lot 217. 

MARCHANT, EST. 1925 (Lots 59-100 and 116-173).

NoteAn identical ewer and cover in the Victoria & Albert Museum is illustrated by R. Kerr and L. E. Mengoni, in Chinese Export Ceramics, no. 152, p. 108.
Another identical ewer, with a non matching cover from an underglaze blue example, is illustrated by R. Krahl and J. Ayers in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, Volume III, p. 935. Three similar ewers in the Topkapi Saray, one with an Ottoman silver gilt handle and cover, are also shown, pps. 1192 and 1200-01. 

Porcelain ewer and lid, Qing dynasty, ca

Porcelain ewer and lid, with moulded relief decoration painted in red enamel and gilded, Jingdezhen, China, Qing dynasty, ca. 1700-1750; 32.4 x 16.5 cm. 240B&C-1876. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2017. 

Christie's. Chinese Export Art Featuring 100 lots from Marchant, est 1925, 18 January 2018, New York

Aktis Gallery at BRAFA, 27 Jan - 4 Feb 2018, Stand 7c

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Zao Wou-Ki (Beijing 1920-2013 Nyon), Untitled, circa 1965. Gouache and ink on paper, 37.8 x 28.3 cm. Signed and inscribed ‘Bien amicalement Zao' lower right and 'À Pierre Cabanne' lower left© Aktis Gallery

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André Marfaing (Toulouse 1925-1987 Paris), Untitled, 1984. Acrylic on canvas, 73 x 92 cm. Signed and dated lower right© Aktis Gallery

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Agustín Cárdenas [Matanzas 1927-2001 Havana], Totem, 1959. Burnt wood. H 233 x W 47 x D 17 cm. Signed and dated. © Aktis Gallery

Provenance: former collection Edouard Glissant, Paris.

Aktis Gallery at BRAFA, Stand 7c. 10-11 Park PlaceUK-SW1A 1LP London. t +44 (0)207 62 96 531 - m +33 (0)6 09 08 90 08. info@aktis-gallery.co.uk - www.aktis-gallery.co.uk

d’Arschot & Cie at BRAFA, 27 Jan - 4 Feb 2018

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Flemish tea caddy. Silver and mahogany. Tea boxes by Jacobus Vollaert and silver mounts by Jacobus Van Hoorebeke, Ghent, 1769. H 20 x W 23.5 cm. © d’Arschot & Cie

Literature: ‘Magie de l'Orfèvrerie, Argenterie européenne de 1500 à 1850 dans les collections privées’, Pandora, 2000, Antwerp, n° 92.

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Beaker with scenes depicting the life of Jacob. Engraved silver-gilt and polychrome enamel, Augsburg, 1710-1712. Silversmith: Elias Adam. Enamel by Johan Aufenwerth. H 12.7 cm© d’Arschot & Cie

Literature: U. Weinhold, ‘Emailmalerei an Augsburger goldschmiedearbeiten von 1650 bis 1750’, München, 2000, p. 150.

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Nautilus cup. Silver, silver-gilt and cephalipodia nautiloidea. South Germany, Landshut, 1630. Silversmith: Jürg Winhardt. H 24.7 cm. © Luk Vander Plaetse © d’Arschot & Cie

Literature: M. Frankenburger, ‘Die landshuter goldschmiede’, Munich, 1915, pp 90-91.

d’Arschot & Cie at BRAFA, Stand 42BAvenue Louise 192BE-1050 Brussels. t +32 (0)2 649 56 21 - m +32 (0)475 78 35 05. p.darschot@skynet.be - www.darschot.com

Art et Patrimoine - Laurence Lenne at BRAFA, 27 Jan - 4 Feb 2018, Stand 128b

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Fransesco Xanto Avelli (Rovigo, 1487-1542), The dream of Constantin, 1538. Plate on low foot with the coat of arms of Euffreducci di Fermo, Italy, Urbino. Signed and dated, Ø 27 cm© Art et Patrimoine

Literature: J.V.G. Mallet, ‘Pottery-Painter, poet, man of the Italian renaissance’, Ed. The Wallace Collection, 2007

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 Two plates with the coat of arms of the Cornélius Antonius Chastelein family, Chinese export porcelain, Circa 1750. © Art et Patrimoine

Literature: C. Kozyreff and H. Maertens de Noordhout, ‘Porcelaines armoriées du Pavillon chinois’, extract from the ‘Bulletin des Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire’, Brussels, Vol 69, p. 40.

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 Mortar with a coat of arms. Engraved steel, South Germany, early 17th century. © Art et Patrimoine

Art et Patrimoine - Laurence Lenne at BRAFA, 27 Jan - 4 Feb 2018, Stand 128bChaussée de Bruxelles 344BE-7800 Ath. t +32 (0)68 45 66 35 - m +32 (0)476 54 26 36. artetpatrimoine@skynet.be - www.artetpatrimoine.be

ArtAncient at BRAFA, 27 Jan - 4 Feb 2018, Stand 86d

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Corinthian helmet. Bronze. Greece, Archaic period, 650 BC. H 36.8 cm. © ArtAncient

Corinthian helmets are the most striking and immediately recognisable of all ancient Greek helmets; emblematic of ancient Greece and its soldier-citizen, the Hoplite.

Provenance: Heiner collection, Bonn, Germany, prior to 1991; Antiken-Kabinett, Frankfurt (List-n° 0456) by 1991.

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Gold stater with the portrait of Alexander, Macedonia, minted under King Lysimachos, circa 297-281 BC, Ø 1.86 cm© ArtAncient

Struck with the image of the deified Alexander the Great, shown wearing a diadem and with the horn of Ammon emerging from his wild hair.

Provenance: Swiss private collection.

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New Kingdom Shabti. Wood. Egypt, 18th Dynasty, 1550-1295 BC. H 24 cm© ArtAncient

The only surviving shabti known for Iweferbaku. Finely modelled, with remnants of blue and gold gesso and Egyptian blue. A single frontal column of hieroglyphs reads, ’The Osiris, Keeper of the Chamber of Amun, Iweferbaku’

Provenance: collection of Mrs. J. Pearson, United Kingdom, acquired 1930s.

ArtAncient at BRAFA, 27 Jan - 4 Feb 2018, Stand 86d31 Imperial RoadUK-SW62FR London. t +44 (0)203 621 08 16. us@artancient.com - www.artancient.com

A fine blue-glazed meiping, mark and period of Yongzheng (1723-1735)

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Lot 1630. A fine blue-glazed meiping, mark and period of Yongzheng (1723-1735); 30.2 cm., 11 7/8 in. Estimate 500,000 — 600,000 HKD. Lot Sold 1,460,000 HKDphoto Sotheby's 2009

well-potted with attenuated sides rising to high rounded shoulders below the waisted neck, covered with a brilliant purplish-blue glaze stopping short of the white mouth rim. 

Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 22nd-23rd September 2004, lot 295.

Note: A Yongzheng blue-glazed meiping of this shape and size was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 24th May 1978, lot 200, and again 17th May 1988, lot 93.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. 08 Oct 09. Hong Kong

A fine blue glazed bottle vase, Mark and Period of Yongzheng (1723-1735)

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Lot 1631. A fine blue glazed bottle vase, Mark and Period of Yongzheng (1723-1735); 27 cm., 10 5/8 in. Estimate 3,800,000 — 4,500,000 HKD. Lot Sold 5,780,000 HKD. photo Sotheby's 2009

well potted with an ovoid body set with broad sloping shoulders tapering sharply to a splayed foot, surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck sweeping up to a cupped mouth, the neck collared by a pair of raised horizontal fillets, covered overall in a rich and deep indigo blue, the interior and base glaze white, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark within double-circles.

NoteElegantly proportioned and covered in a brilliantly intense blue glaze, the present vase is extremely rare and the only other monochrome example appears to be a red-glazed vase in the Palace Museum, Beijing, published in Qing Dynasty Imperial Kiln Porcelain, Beijing, 2005, cat. no. 10. The form of this piece is inspired by Song bottles of compressed globular form and similar horizontal ribs on the neck; for example see three vases published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum. Southern Sung Kuan Ware, Taipei, 1974, pls. 17, 18 and 22. The inspiration for these Song wares may have come from metal water flasks or bottles of the period. The Yongzheng emperor was a great admirer of Song ceramics, and wares imitating Song glazes and shapes were made in quantities in the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen. This vase is a fine example of the adaptation of a Song form to suit contemporary taste. The proportions have been changed to make the vase appear light and balanced while still invoking a sense of the past.

This form is better known in Yongzheng wares imitating Song glazes; see a Yongzheng mark and period vase covered with a crackled Guan-type glaze, and three small rams above the foot, illustrated in John Ayers, The Baur Collection. Chinese Ceramics, vol. 3, Geneva, 1972, pl. A 348; and another Ge-type glazed example, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, published in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong. Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 257, pl. 86. Compare also a flambé-glazed vase of similar shape, from the collections of W.W. Winkworth and the British Rail Pension Fund, sold in our London rooms, 12th December 1972, lot 171, again in these rooms, 16th May 1989, lot 64, and again at Christie's Hong Kong, 2nd November 1999, lot 512, from the collection from Robert Chang.

A related vase of this form and deep blue glaze, with a Jiaqing mark on the inset base, was sold in these rooms, 27th May 1978, lot 542, and again at Christie's New York, 1st June 1979, lot 107. Compare also Yongzheng vases of the same form but decorated in underglaze blue with dragons on a wave ground, such as one from the Qing Court collection, and still in Beijing, illustrated in Qingdai yu taoci qi, vol. 1, Beijing, 2006, pl. 2; another, from the collection of Robert Chang, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 2nd November 1999, lot 513; and a third, originally in the collection of W.W. Winkworth and now in the Au Bak Ling collection, sold in our London rooms, 12th December 1972, lot 99, and again in these rooms, 31st October 1974, lot 198. See another Yongzheng example in blue and white in the current sale, lot 1697.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. 08 Oct 09. Hong Kong


A celadon-glazed 'drum' vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795)

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Lot 1633. A celadon-glazed 'drum' vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795); 16.1 cm, 6 3/8 in. Estimate 200,000 — 300,000 HKD. Lot Sold 680,000 HKD. photo Sotheby's 2009

the barrel-shaped drum with sides rising to a flat incurved mouth, studded with a row of bosses around the top and near the foot, the sides set with pair of high-relief molded animal-heads securing mock-ring handles, covered overall with an even celadon-green glaze, the underside inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark.

Provenance: E.T. Chow Collection.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25th November 1980, lot 96.
Christie's London, 5th July 1983, lot 310. 

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. 08 Oct 09. Hong Kong

Galerie Ary Jan at BRAFA, 27 Jan - 4 Feb 2018, Stand 2c

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Antoine Carte (Mons 1886-1954 Brussels), Annunciation, 1923. Graphite pencil and watercolour on paper mounted on canvas, 76 x 76 cm. Signed and dated lower left© Galerie Ary Jan

Provenance: William S. Stimmel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as of 1936

Literature: exhibition of paintings by Anto Carte, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1925, cat. n° 16, p. 9

Exhibition: exhibition of paintings by Anto Carte, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1 February-19 March 1925, n° 16; Anto Carte exhibition of paintings, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 24 March-20 April 1925; the Texas Centennial exposition, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, Texas, 6 June-29 November 1936.

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Jules Pierre Van Biesbroeck (Portici 1873-1965 Brussels), ‘Les Moires Clotho et Lachesis’. Pair of pastels on paper, 91.5 x 57 cm. Monogrammed lower left and titled lower right© Galerie Ary Jan

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Léon De Smet (Ghent 1881-1966 Deurle), Landscape, 1914. Oil on canvas, 45 x 66 cm. Signed and dated lower left© Galerie Ary Jan

Provenance: private collection

Galerie Ary Jan at BRAFA, 27 Jan - 4 Feb 2018, Stand 2c32 Avenue MarceauFR-75008 Paris. t +33 (0)1 42 61 42 10 - m +33 (0)6 07 88 75 84 - info@galeriearyjan.com - www.galeriearyjan.com

A 'Longquan''guan-type' bottle vase, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)

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A 'Longquan''guan-type' bottle vase, Southern Song dynasty

Lot 529. A 'Longquan''guan-type' bottle vase, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279); 18cm., 7 1/8 in. Estimate 500 — 750 GBP. Lot sold 12,500 GBP. Photo Sotheby's 2008

the globular body rising from a short tapering foot to a tall cylindrical neck with everted rim, flanked by a pair of tubular handles, covered overall in a bluish-green glaze suffused with a matrix of golden crackles.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, London, 05 Nov 2008

A 'Longquan' celadon 'Lotus' bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279)

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A Longquan celadon 'Lotus' bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279)

Lot 530. A Longquan' celadon 'Lotus' bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279); 12.6cm., 5in.' Estimate 1,500 — 2,000 GBP. Lot sold 8,750 GBP. Photo Sotheby's 2008

the deep rounded sides rising from a short tapering foot to a slightly incurved broad mouth, carved around the exterior with over-lapping lotus petals and covered overall with a soft bluish-green glaze save for the rim and footring burnt orange in firing.

Literature: Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 122

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, London, 05 Nov 2008

A 'Longquan' celadon-glazed bottle vase, Song dynasty (960-1279)

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A Longquan' celadon-glazed bottle vase, Song dynasty (960-1279)

Lot 542. A 'Longquan' celadon-glazed bottle vase, Song dynasty (960-1279); 15cm, 5 7/8 in. Estimate 250 — 350 GBP. Lot sold 6,875 GBP. Photo Sotheby's 2008

the globular body rising from a short tapering foot to a broad tall neck with everted dished rim, covered overall with a soft bluish-green glaze.

Literature: Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 96.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, London, 05 Nov 2008

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