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Lot Essay
A similar black-glazed vase is in the Ulricehamn Museum, Sweden, p. 417, nr. 999
Details
Two Chinese vases
19th Century
An underglaze-blue and red 'twin-fish' vase, four shunzhi character mark, 28.5 cm. high; and a black-glazed vase of baluster shape imitating lacquer, moulded in relief with lobed cartouches of dragons on a whorl-pattern ground, mythical-beast mask loose ring handle to the shoulders, impressed Qianlong seal mark, 32 cm. high (2)
19th Century
An underglaze-blue and red 'twin-fish' vase, four shunzhi character mark, 28.5 cm. high; and a black-glazed vase of baluster shape imitating lacquer, moulded in relief with lobed cartouches of dragons on a whorl-pattern ground, mythical-beast mask loose ring handle to the shoulders, impressed Qianlong seal mark, 32 cm. high (2)
Provenance
Carl Kempe Collection, nrs. 865 and 812
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