Lot 20: TWO BLUE AND WHITE AND UNDERGLAZE-RED-DECORATED VASES First half 19th century

TWO BLUE AND WHITE AND UNDERGLAZE-RED-DECORATED VASES

First half 19th century

One of elegant slender baluster form and painted with a heron standing on one leg in a lotus pond; the other of bottle form with a globular body surmounted by a trumpet neck, the body painted with a bird perched on the branch of blossoming prunus rising from a grassy knoll; on each, the principal motif framed by incised brown-dressed biscuit bands above and below, and further brown dressing at the rim and base. (2)


baluster vase: 7in high (17.8cm) high
bottle vase: 6 3/4in (17.1cm) high

Both, generally, in excellent overall condition. Each with minute air-bubble pinpricks to the surface but unobtrusive. Recommended.

十九世紀前半期 青花釉裡紅鐵骨泥花鳥圖撇口瓶兩件



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York

Purchase by subscription, 1879

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present




來源：

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904)，紐約

會費購藏，1879 年

大都會藝術博物館，1879 年迄今

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