Lot Essay
(US$7,000-8,000)
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A MING-STYLE DOUCAI GUAN AND COVER
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A MING-STYLE DOUCAI GUAN AND COVER
CHENGHUA SIX-CHARACTER MARK, KANGXI
Decorated around the body with a continuous scene of a scholar standing in his studio, next to a terraced garden where two attendants flank a man being presented two lotus sprigs, with two further attendants nearby, the garden with a lotus pond and rockwork issuing plants and flowers, with the moon and billowing clouds overhead, the high rounded shoulders with a band of flower-heads interspersed with ruyi-shaped clouds, the cover depicting a lotus pond and rockwork, the sides similarly decorated, painted in underglaze-blue and copper-red and picked out in green, yellow, aubergine, brown and black enamels, the nianhao written within double circles at the base
6 5/8 in. (16.9 cm.) high
CHENGHUA SIX-CHARACTER MARK, KANGXI
Decorated around the body with a continuous scene of a scholar standing in his studio, next to a terraced garden where two attendants flank a man being presented two lotus sprigs, with two further attendants nearby, the garden with a lotus pond and rockwork issuing plants and flowers, with the moon and billowing clouds overhead, the high rounded shoulders with a band of flower-heads interspersed with ruyi-shaped clouds, the cover depicting a lotus pond and rockwork, the sides similarly decorated, painted in underglaze-blue and copper-red and picked out in green, yellow, aubergine, brown and black enamels, the nianhao written within double circles at the base
6 5/8 in. (16.9 cm.) high