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Two Transitional Wucai Baluster vases and covers, 17th Century.

Estimate
40 000 - 50 000 SEK
3 530 - 4 410 EUR
3 680 - 4 600 USD
Hammer price
60 000 SEK
Purchasing info
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Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Head Specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
Two Transitional Wucai Baluster vases and covers, 17th Century.

Matched. Decorated with dragons chasing the flaming pearl amidst cloud formations above waves and rock formations. The other jar with a dragon and a phoenix chasing the flaming pearl amidst cloud formations. Height approximately 40 cm.

Restored.

Provenance

The one with double dragon with lable from Guest & Gray to interior. The other with a lable to the base.

The Avalon Collection Part II.

This collection, which in the main focuses on the Interregnum and Kangxi periods has been both carefully and sensitively formed over the last twenty-five years. The collector, a member of the English Oriental Ceramic Society, has assembled the collection with an eye for provenance whilst purchasing from old European collections, well-established antique dealers and at auction.

Academically, the pieces have been well researched both in terms of their symbolism and narrative themes. In many instances the imagery on the pieces has been referenced to episodes in the romantic and historic novels of Chinese mythology, which were used extensively in the decoration of seventeenth century Chinese porcelain.