17TH-18TH CENTURY

Details

Two Small Hardwood Lobed Bottle Vases
17th-18th century
One of boxwood, with barbed petal-lobed sides rising to the lipless rim from the edge of the foot carved as a three-petaled blossom, of rich reddish-honey tone; the other huanghuali and of square section with lobed sides and indented corners, the base carved as a four-petaled blossom, with dark patina
3 7/8 and 4½in. (9.8 and 11.4cm.) high, stands (2)

Provenance

Charlotte Hortsmann, Hong Kong, 1984.

Lot Essay

Vases of this size and type were also made in ivory during the 17th-18th centuries. See the ivory vase very similar in form to the second vase in this lot and dated to the 18th century illustrated in Chinese Ivories from Shang to the Qing, London, Oriental Ceramic Society, The British Museum, 1984, p. 165, no. 210; and another dated Shunzhi-Kangxi (1644-1722) illustrated in Chinese Ivories from the Kwan Collection, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990, no. 118.

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