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Two blue and white 'ladies' vessels, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period | 清康熙 青花仕女圖小罐及執壺
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March 28, 03:34 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
Two blue and white 'ladies' vessels
Qing dynasty, Kangxi period
清康熙 青花仕女圖小罐及執壺
the base of the jar with an Artemisia leaf in underglaze blue, both with later-added mounts (2)
Height of taller 6⅛ in., 15.5 cm
Mottahedeh Collection.
Sotheby's New York, 30th January 1985, lot 17.
New York Private Collection, and thence by descent.
David Howard and John Ayers, China for the West: Chinese Porcelain and Other Decorative Arts for Export Illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection, vol. 1, London, 1987, pl. 25.
Born in 1901 in Kashan, Rafi Y. Mottahedeh amassed a great collection of Chinese export, which was later published by David Howard and John Ayers in China for the West: Chinese Porcelain and Other Decorative Arts for Export Illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection, vols 1-2, London, 1987. In the book, Nelson Rockefeller, a close friend of Mottahedeh wrote a foreword, calling the collection 'utterly fabulous, an artistic and cultural treasure without comparison in its field'.
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