Smith & Singer
179

AN ANNAMESE BLUE AND WHITE ALTAR VESSEL, 16TH/17TH CENTURY

Estimate $2,000 – $3,000

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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
39.5CM

  • Lot Sold $2,700 (Hammer Price)
  • $3,294 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

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Catalogue 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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Fine Asian, Australian & European Arts & Design

AU0782  |  29 Oct 2013  |  Melbourne
6 PM


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