TWO SIMILAR CHINESE POWDER-BLUE -GROUND BLUE AND WHITE ROULEAU VASES (2)
Kangxi
Each painted with two rectangular panels enclosing the explorer, Zhang Qian, riding on his dragon-headed raft, delivering a scroll to a lady in the window of a building above, the reverse with two geese looking up at another in flight, the sides reserved with shaped panels enclosing a white hair, bird in branches, a shrimp and a grasshopper, 25.5cm high.Provenance: Property from a deceased estate
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£1,500 - £2,000
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Hammer price:
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£4,000 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
One vase has a triangular firing flaw to the rim, approx. 3cm wide by 1.2cm at deepest point. There is very shallow chip around the top of the rim, approx. 0.5cm by 2mm and some brown specking to the glaze to the interior of the rim. The footrim has been trimed.
The other vase with a poorly restored section to the rim, approx. 6cm by 2cm at the deepest point. There is a restored crack running from the rim, around the neck and extending to the other rim, approx. 6cm length. The is a small glaze chip to the neck along this break, approx. 0.75cm by 0.5cm . There are two shallow rim chips, the largest approx. 1cm by 0.5cm. There are some glaze impurities to the glaze and a shallow 0.3cm.chip around the footrim, approx. 1.5cm
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