Lot Essay
The inscriptions are extracts from the famous text entitled `Teng Wang Ge Xu', which may be translated as `Preface to the Teng Wang Pavilion'. It was composed by the Tang dynasty (AD 616-908) poet Wang Bo.
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19TH CENTURY
Details
FOUR CHINESE GILT-DECORATED BLUE-GROUND HEXAGONAL VASES
19TH CENTURY
Comprising a pair with zoomorphic handles, gilt with a pavilion and inscribed with numerous poetic lines; another, similar, slightly larger; and the fourth, also similar but gilt with the Three Star Gods on one side
22 ½ in. (56.5 cm.) high and smaller
19TH CENTURY
Comprising a pair with zoomorphic handles, gilt with a pavilion and inscribed with numerous poetic lines; another, similar, slightly larger; and the fourth, also similar but gilt with the Three Star Gods on one side
22 ½ in. (56.5 cm.) high and smaller
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