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PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN LADY
A FAHUA 'FIGURAL' MEIPING
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
with a tapering body sweeping up to a rounded shoulder surmounted by a waisted neck and everted rim, painted to the exterior with a sage drifting towards a pavilion enshrouded in clouds approached by an attendant carrying a wrapped qin, between a ruyi-collar enclosing lotus blooms at the shoulder and a lappet band below, glazed in aubergine, turquoise and yellow reserved against a deep blue ground
30 cm, 11 3/4 in.
Estimate
4,000
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6,000
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