Sale 2339
New York
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16 - 17 September 2010
Price realised
USD 8,125
Estimate
A LARGE WUCAI BALUSTER VASE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1650 Painted with an official seated in a terraced garden surrounded by attendants and tribute bearers, three kneeling in the foreground and presenting a jue, an ingot and a wine ewer, while a fourth approaches from the side bearing a wrapped gift, the neck painted with leafy chrystanthemum and peony sprays and ornamental rockwork above a 'cracked-ice' border encircling the shoulder 20 1/8 in. (51.1 cm.) high
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