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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A GROUP OF EIGHT MINIATURE GLAZED TABLE ARTICLES
MING DYNASTY–REPUBLIC PERIOD, 14TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY
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A GROUP OF EIGHT MINIATURE GLAZED TABLE ARTICLES
MING DYNASTY–REPUBLIC PERIOD, 14TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The group comprises two green-glazed ovoid snuff bottles, a white-glazed shell-form washer, an underglaze-blue and copper-red vase with apocryphal Qianlong four-character mark, a gilt-decorated iron-red bottle vase with apocryphal Qianlong four-character mark, a biscuit glazed figure of a Daoist deity, a white-glazed porcelain square table, a red-splashed brown-glazed model of a stool. Together with six miniature wood stands.
The largest 2 ½ in. (6.3 cm.) high, two cloth boxes and three wood stands
MING DYNASTY–REPUBLIC PERIOD, 14TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The group comprises two green-glazed ovoid snuff bottles, a white-glazed shell-form washer, an underglaze-blue and copper-red vase with apocryphal Qianlong four-character mark, a gilt-decorated iron-red bottle vase with apocryphal Qianlong four-character mark, a biscuit glazed figure of a Daoist deity, a white-glazed porcelain square table, a red-splashed brown-glazed model of a stool. Together with six miniature wood stands.
The largest 2 ½ in. (6.3 cm.) high, two cloth boxes and three wood stands
Provenance
Yamanaka & Co., Osaka, 1945.
Lionel Rosenberg, Cape Town, South Africa, circa 1967-68.
Lionel Rosenberg, Cape Town, South Africa, circa 1967-68.
Exhibited
Pasadena, Pacificulture-Asia Museum, 13 June–15 August 1976.
Second and fourth: New York, Christie’s, Small Pleasures: Chinese Works of Art from an Important Private American Collection, 15-20 March 2013.
Second and fourth: New York, Christie’s, Small Pleasures: Chinese Works of Art from an Important Private American Collection, 15-20 March 2013.
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Vicki Paloympis (潘薇琦)
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