Smith & Singer
180

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

Estimate $1,000 – $1,500

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of baluster form, painted around the widest part with a dragon pursuing a flaming pearl among flames and cloud scrolls, and a band of upright lappets around the base divided by an unglazed horizontal brown band repeated around the stepped foot, the neck incurved to the narrow mouth unglazed and painted with five Chinese characters
30.5CM

  • Lot Sold $1,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $1,220 (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, plate XIb

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Fine Asian, Australian & European Arts & Design

AU0782  |  29 Oct 2013  |  Melbourne
6 PM


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