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Blue and white double-gourd ewer
Yuan dynasty
Painted with leafy flower sprays
12,5 cm
Sold at Christie's London, 10 June 1996, lot 71
For a similar ewer see Yeo & Martin, Chinese Blue & Whte Ceramics, pl. 1
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A very rare Ming blue and white and iron-red dragon dish
Chenghua mark and period(1465-1487)
Painted with a central roundel of a five-clawed dragon in iron-red
on a blue and white ground of crested waves, the exterior similarly
decorated with two further dragons between rocks (restored)
Diam 15,4 cm
A similar dish, but with a blue and white dragon against iron-red
waves, is illustrated in: A Legacy of Chenghua, Imperial Porcelain
of the Chenghua Reign, The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 103
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A rare Ming blue and white dish
Jiajing (1522-1566)
painted with a central roundel of three scholars on a terrace, one seated in
the middle before a screen and palying the qin while the others are seated
on either sid on a chair, the well with phoenix in flight, the everted rim with
the Eight Buddhist symbols, the underside with four flowering branches below
fruiting sprays below the rim.
Diam. 42 cm
Published by Yeo and Martin, Chinese Blue & White Ceramics, pl. 49, 1978 and
exhibited in : The Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Ceramics by the Southeast
Asian Ceramics Society, National Museum Singapore, 1978
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Blue and white barrel-shaped tripod censer
15th century
Painted on both sides with a makara dragon below a flame border
Diam. 9,5 cm
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Blue and white kendi
Wanli
Painted on the body with scrolling lingzhi
Height 17 cm
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A rare 'Kraak Porcelein' plate, Wanli
well moulded and finely painted with.a duck on rockwork near flowering branches of lotus below radidiating panels of flowers and butterfly, the reverse with
panels of a butterfly and ruyi heads, the base with an egret mark.
21 cm
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For Kraak Porcelain with egret mark see Maura Rinaldi: Kraak Porcelain, A Moment in the History of Trade, pp.195-208, where the author has been able to locate only 45 pieces with egret mark worldwide of which 23 in the Netherlands.
SOLD
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A fine blue and white 'Kraak Porcelain' deep bowl
Wanli
well moulded and painted in the interior with tasselled symbols, the moulded well with four shaped panels of further symbols, fruit and flowers divided by two opposed ruyi heads, all below leafy flowerheads at the everted rim, the outside with shaped panels below birds on a branch, the blue of very strong and deep colour
Diam 21,5 cm
A very similar bowl is in the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden and illustrated by Maura Rinaldi, Kraak Porcelain, Pl. 133, where she mentions the rare arrangements of the two opposed ruyi heads dividing the shaped panels on the well.
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A blue and white 'Kraak Porcelain' saucer dish
Wanli
painted with two deer near pine tree below radiating panels of a flower spray, the reverse with birds on a branch
Diam. 20,5 cm
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A blue and white 'Kraak Porcelain' chrysanthemum-shaped saucer dish
Wanli.
Freely painted with boats and pavillions in a river landscape below two moulded rows of flower petals
Diam. 20,6 cm
SOLD
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Rare blue and white kraak plate
Wanli
Painted with fish, the rim with butterflies
22 cm
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A blue and white 'Kraak Porcelain' bottle vase
Wanli
Moulded and painted with vertical panels of flower vases and Taoist symbols
Height 24,5 cm
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A blue and white 'Kraak Porcelain' bottle vase
Wanli
Painted with vertical panels of flying horses and flowers
Height 28 cm
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Blue and white eight-lobed jar
Wanli
Painted leafy gourd vine
16 cm |
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Pair of blue and white stem cups
17th century
Painted with leafy sprays
8,3 and 8 cm |
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Blue and white silver-mounted ewer
Transitional, circa 1640
Painted with a scholar an servant in a landscape
24,5 cm |
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Pair of blue and white fan-shaped dishes
17th century
Each painted with a female equestrian holding banners
13 cm wide |
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A fine blue and white charger
Kangxi
Well painted overall with a design of prunus blossoms on cracked ice,
the base with freely painted bamboo sprays encircling the channel foot rim
Diam. 33 cm
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A large blue and white charger
Kangxi
Painted in a strong blue colour with a scholar on horseback followed by a servant in an impressive rocky riverscape
Diam. 39 cm
SOLD
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A pair of blue and white small saucers
Kangxi
Moulded flower shape, painted with a star-shaped panel of an erotic scene below moulded petals, the everted rim with a geometric design,
the exterior with a band of mouded flower petals below a flower scroll.
Diam. 11 cm
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Rare blue and white salt and cover
Kangxi
Painted with leafy floral sprays
8,5 cm |
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Rare blue and white bowl
Chenghua six character mark, Kangxi
Painted with dragon and phoenix reserved in white on a blue ground, the interior
with a band of similar decoration, the centre with a roundel of rock emerging
from waves,
22,2 cm
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Two blue and white silver-mounted jars
Kangxi
One painted with ladies on a terrace, the other with floral lappets
18 and 21 cm
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Blue and white kendi
Kangxi
Painted allover with leafy lotus scrolls
22 cm
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Large blue and white deep charger
Yongzheng
Painted in the early Ming-style with composite floral arabesques of flowerheads including lotus, camellia and chrysanthemum encircled by a narrow scroll border below
further scrolling stems and flowers repeated on the reverse, unglazed base
41 cm
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Blue and white chamber pot
Qianlong
Painted with flowering branches
15,5 cm
Ex: Nanking Cargoe, ChristieÕs , May-June 1986, lot 3138
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Octagonal blue and white dish
Qianlong
Finely painted with a river landscape
34 cm
SOLD
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Blue and white 'Rotterdam Riot' cup and saucer
circa 1735
Painted with the well-known scene of the attack on the house of van Zuylen de
Nyevelt
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Blue and white Cornelis Pronk dish
Circa 1735
Finely painted with the scene of the 'Parasol Ladies'
15,7 cm |
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A blue and white and iron-red decorated boat-shaped dish
Qianlong
Painted with five-clawed dragons chasing the flaming pearl in iron-red amidst clouds in underglaze-blue, the base with hall mark yang he tang zhi in black
14 cm wide |
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Blue and white bowl
Daoguang sealmark and period
Painted with roundels of trigrams divided by cranes and clouds
14 cm |
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Three blue and white 'Lotus' saucer dishes19th century
Daoguang, Guangxu and Tongzhi marks and period
Painted with loyus flowers and foliage
15-15,5 cm
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Blue and white jar
19th century
Painted with a continuous scene of a lady and man watching archers, the other side with a crane below wutong tree
17 cm
SOLD
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Blue and white bottle vase
Qianlong mark
19th century
Painted with floral lappets above four dragons amongst clouds
32 cm
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