A DATED DEHUA BLANC-DE-CHINE SLEEVE VASE of slightly tapering shape with a waisted neck and two moulded lion-mask handles, inscribed 'made for the Hall of Transcending the Self at Xiangang Mountain'

MONDAY 8TH JUNE 1992 AT 10.30 A.M.PRECISELY (LOTS 1-286) THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN A COLLECTION OF DATED PORCELAIN (LOTS 1-31

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A DATED DEHUA BLANC-DE-CHINE SLEEVE VASE of slightly tapering shape with a waisted neck and two moulded lion-mask handles, inscribed 'made for the Hall of Transcending the Self at Xiangang Mountain'
(ground rim frits), and dated Winter of guihai year, probably corresponding to AD 1683 and of the period
45.5cm. high

Lot Essay

A similar sleeve vase, but dated 1702, is illustrated by Donnelly, Blanc-de-chine, pl.8A. Compare also the vase with incised decoration from the Museé Guimet, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol.7, no.106

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