Sale 5093
London, South Kensington
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29 March 2007
Price realised
GBP 780
Estimate
Two similar Chinese powder blue beaker vases, gu, Kangxi each of slender cylindrical form rising to the trumpet shaped mouth, supported on a splayed foot, the exterior covered with a mottled powder blue glaze and decorated in gilt and iron-red with a peony blossom and a bird perched on a blossoming prunus tree, with a floral ruyi-head border below the rim, the interior white glazed -- maximum 8 7/16in. (21.4cm.) high. (2)
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