SONG DYNASTY AND WANLI

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A group of four ewers and vases
Song Dynasty and Wanli
Comprising a Yingqing ewer moulded with a petal-shaped band around the body, rim crack, 16.5 cm. high; a Yingqing pear-shaped vase, surmounted on a high foot, moulded with a lion and dragon, 22.8 cm. high; a Yingqing small globular jarlet with two lug handles, 6.2 cm. high; and a late Ming blue-glazed ewer after an Islamic prototype, decorated with dragons and cloud scrolls in the biscuit on a midnight-blue ground, restored, 21 cm. high (4)

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Lot Essay

A similar type Ming ewer and cover from the Eumorfopoulos Collection, is illustrated by Jessica Harrison Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, no. 11:182; and illustrated by Jan Wirgin, Song - Ming, Treasures of the Holger Lauritzon Collection, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm, catalogue, no. 96.

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