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    FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART

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    18 September 2003

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    • A QINGBAI MOLDED BALUSTER VASE
    Lot 261

    A QINGBAI MOLDED BALUSTER VASE

    SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    USD 4,182

    Estimate

    USD 2,500 - USD 3,500

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    A QINGBAI MOLDED BALUSTER VASE
    Song/Yuan dynasty, 13th century
    The compressed center of the body with sharp edges bordered by chrysanthemum petal bands, with a herring-bone band at the base of the neck, covered with a thin glaze of good pale blue tone continuing over the everted mouth and stopping at the top of the splayed pedestal foot
    8¼in. (21cm.) high

    Provenance

    Hans A. Öström Collection, Stockholm.
    Professor Jan Hellner Collection.
    Peter Boode, The Hague.

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    Lot Essay

    Compare two similar molded Qingbai vases, the first from The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated by J. Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Design, London, 1979, pl. 33a; the second from the Falk Collection, sold in these rooms, 20 September 2001, lot 99.

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