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Auction House:
Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
29-Oct-2013
Lot No.
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Description:
An Annamese blue and white altar vessel, 16th/17th century of stoutly potted baluster form encircled around the widest part with an unglazed dragon in high relief, and painted with a flaming pearl, clouds and flames above a band of upright lappets rising from the high stepped foot encircled with a foliate scroll, the shoulders with an unglazed band of ruyi heads in relief around a raised collar below the narrow tapering mouth, traces of brown pigment, incised with a four character inscription on the shoulders 39.5 cm. Other Notes: See the pair to this altar vessel, from the collection of Mr and Mrs Barry Hitchcock, in Roxanna brown, the Ceramics of south-East Asia, Oxford University press, Oxford, 1988, plate18a
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Price:
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Category:
Oriental: Ceramics - Chinese