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A FINELY ENAMELLED VASE BY WANG XIAOTANG TONGYUN SHANFANG MARK, 1916-24
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Sold
bidding is closed
Description
- porcelain
- 28 cm, 11 in.
the tapering cylindrical vase rising from a short foot to a waisted neck with everted rim, finely enamelled around the exterior with the Daoist Immortal Liu Hai sporting with his three-legged toad, to his side stand three young boys, one holding a double-gourd issuing the wu fu, the base with iron-red tongyun shanfang mark (Mountain retreat of the red clouds), the studio mark of Wang Xiaotang
Provenance
Collection of Kaynes-Klitz.
Acquired by the present owner from Peter Wain in 1995.
Acquired by the present owner from Peter Wain in 1995.
Literature
H.A. Van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Lochem, 1977, pl. 194.
Peter Wain, The Kaynes-Klitz Collection, Shropshire, 1995, p.18, pl. 21.
Peter Wain, The Kaynes-Klitz Collection, Shropshire, 1995, p.18, pl. 21.