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MING/QING DYNASTY, 16TH-19TH CENTURY
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A Group of Miniature Vessels
Ming/Qing dynasty, 16th-19th century
Comprising a pair of pear-shaped bottle vases and a barrel-form tripod censer, all covered with a deep blue glaze, 16th century; a blue and white soft-paste flattened circular seal paste box and cover, Xuande mark, 19th century, the cover with a front-faced dragon grasping a pearl, the sides with crashing waves; a white-glazed circular compressed box and cover, incised with lotus stems, 19th century; a blue and white bottle vase, Yongzheng seal mark, 19th century, decorated with dragons chasing flaming pearls; together with an Annamese miniature blue and white box and cover, 15th-16th century, the cover decorated with a bird in flight
Largest: 3 7/8in. (9.7cm.) high (7)
Ming/Qing dynasty, 16th-19th century
Comprising a pair of pear-shaped bottle vases and a barrel-form tripod censer, all covered with a deep blue glaze, 16th century; a blue and white soft-paste flattened circular seal paste box and cover, Xuande mark, 19th century, the cover with a front-faced dragon grasping a pearl, the sides with crashing waves; a white-glazed circular compressed box and cover, incised with lotus stems, 19th century; a blue and white bottle vase, Yongzheng seal mark, 19th century, decorated with dragons chasing flaming pearls; together with an Annamese miniature blue and white box and cover, 15th-16th century, the cover decorated with a bird in flight
Largest: 3 7/8in. (9.7cm.) high (7)
Provenance
The small dragon vase: The George Eumorfopoulos Collection.
Myron S. Falk Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Myron S. Falk Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Literature
The small dragon vase: R. L. Hobson, The George Eumorfopoulos Collection: Catalogue of the Chinese, Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1927, pl. VII, e 39.
Further details
See illustration of six