Sale 1264
New York
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18 September 2003
Price realised
USD 8,962
Estimate
A BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE Transitional period, ca. 1635-1640 Well painted with a processional scene between narrow decorative bands below three stylized tulips on the tall neck 14¾in. (37.5cm.) high
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Compare the bottle vase of similar form and type and dated as Ming, high Transitional, illustrated by Sir Michael Butler, et al., Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria, Virginia, 1990, p. 81, no. 40.
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