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Lot 15
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A FINELY ENAMELLED VASE BY WANG XIAOTANG TONGYUN SHANFANG MARK, 1916-24

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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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.

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.
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