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Asian Art — Bonhams

Auction House:BonhamsNumber of lots recorded:174
Sale Title:Asian ArtLots with images:174
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:127
Date:3-May-2017
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A Chinese carved white jade 'boating' snuff bottle, 4.5 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese carved white jade 'friend visiting' snuff bottle, 6.2 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese painted ceramic 'conjoined fish' snuff bottle, Qianlong four-character mark, 7.5 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese painted ceramic 'pig' snuff bottle, Qianlong four-character mark, 5.2 cm long. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese red glass overlay 'landscape' snuff bottle, 6 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese carved glass snuff bottles, 5.8 cm and 6.5 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection. Note: Pictured in the centre is a typical motif from the imeprial glass workshop mostly popular during the Qianlong period. . Compare a green bottle with same design, see lot 34, Snuff Bottles from the Mary & George Bloch Collection: Part v, Bonhams Hong Kong, 27 May 2012
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Four Chinese carved glass snuff bottles, varying heights from 5.5 cm to 6.2 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese carved glass snuff bottles, 5.4 cm, 5.8 cm, 6.5 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of four Chinese glass snuff bottles, varying heights from 4.9 cm to 5.8 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Four Chinese carved hardstone and glass snuff bottles, 19th century and later, varying heights from 5.2 cm to 8.5 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese miniature painted enamel snuff bottle, Qianlong four-character mark, 3.8 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese painted-enamel 'bird and flower' snuff bottle, Qianlong four-character mark, 7 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted-enamel 'European figures' snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 5.5 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted-enamel snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 4.8 cm and 5.5 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted-enamel 'Floral' snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 5.2 cm and 5.5 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese carved rock crystal snuff bottles, 5.4 cm and 5.6 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection. Note: Bottles with faceted panels were made in majority of glass, and less frequently in jade and hard stone. The shape, popular during the Qianlong period, is a nice tribute to the Palace workshop
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Four Chinese carved agate snuff bottles, varying heights from 5 cm to 5.5 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Four Chinese carved agate snuff bottles, varying heights from 5.5 cm to 6.5 cm high (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of five Chinese hard stone snuff bottles, varying heights from 5.2 cm to 5.5 cm (5). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of five Chinese hard stone snuff bottles, varying heights from 4.8 cm to 6.3 cm (6). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of five Chinese snuff bottles of glass and hard stone, varying height from 3 cm to 5.5 cm (5). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese painted opaque yellow glass 'landscape' snuff bottle, Qianlong four-character mark, 4.7 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese painted glass snuff bottle, 3.4 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted glass snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 4.2 cm and 4.5 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted glass snuff bottles, Guyue Xuan mark, 6 cm and 7 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted glass snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 5 cm and 5.5 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese carved amber snuff bottles, 5.5 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted glass snuff bottles, 5.6 cm and 5.7 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted glass snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 5.4 cm and 6 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Four Chinese painted glass snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, varying heights from 4.5 cm to 5.5 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of four Chinese red and pink glass snuff bottles, varying heights from 5.2 cm to 7.5 cm high (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of four Chinese glass snuff bottles, varying heights from 5.2 cm to 5.8 cm high (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Five Chinese carved ruby-glass snuff bottles, varying heights from 5.3 cm and 6.2 cm (5). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese inside-painted 'George Washington' rock crystal snuff bottle, attributed to Ma Shaoxuan, 7.5 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese inside-painted 'Three Kingdoms' agate snuff bottle, signed Yu Nong, by Hou Yingzi (1971 - ), dated by inscription 2008, 7.5 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese inside-painted 'tiger' rock crystal snuff bottle, attributed to Liu Shouben, dated by inscription 1969, 7.5 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection() ''
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A Chinese inside-painted 'landscape' agate snuff bottle, unsigned, with three seals of the artist, 7 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese carved agate 'dragon' snuff bottle, 6 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese carved 'gourd' flat snuff bottle, 6.8 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection. Note: The sides of the bottle are flat with polished edges. The artist has shown superlative skill in hollowing out the bottle rendered very difficult by the narrow passage between the two bulbs. The gourd-shaped piece would have been a refined birthday present as it symbolised longevity. . Compare a similar bottle, see The Baur Collection Geneva, Chinese Snuff Bottles, 2007, p. 256
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Two Chinese carved rock crystal snuff bottles, 19th century to Republic period, 6.3 cm and 7.5 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese carved rock crystal snuff bottle, 6.2 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese carved silhouette agate snuff bottle, 5.1 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of four Chinese hard stone snuff bottles, varying heights from 5.2 cm to 6.5 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of four Chinese hard stone snuff bottles, varying heights from 5 cm to 5.8 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of four Chinese carved hard stone snuff bottles, varying heights from 5.5 cm to 6.9 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese carved rock crystal snuff bottle, 6.2 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese carved rock crystal snuff bottles, 6 cm and 6.4 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of four Chinese hard stone snuff bottles, varying heights from 5.8 cm to 6.3 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of four Chinese hard stone snuff bottles, varying heights from 6 cm to 6.7 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of four Chinese hard stone snuff bottles, varying heights from 5.2 cm to 5.5 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of four Chinese jade and hardstone snuff bottles, varying from 6 to 8 cm high (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese miniature glass snuff bottles, 3 cm, 3.7 cm, and 4.2 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese miniature glass snuff bottles, 3.6 cm, 3.7 cm, 3.8 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese miniature glass snuff bottles, 3.2 cm, 3.5 cm, and 3.7 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese miniature glass snuff bottles, 4 cm, 5.2 cm, 3.2 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese miniature glass snuff bottles, 3.2 cm, 4.2 cm, 5.2 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection. Note: The shape of a raised faceted panel forms part of a distinctive group of faceted shape, many of which are of this small size, and the majority are of glass. Heavily produced during the Qianlong period, a small handful of the group has been made during the later period, a witness to the continuing output lead by the Palace glassworks
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A group of five Chinese ruby-red and pink snuff bottles, varying heights from 4.8 cm to 5.7 cm (5). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of four Chinese ruby-red glass snuff bottles, varying heights from 4.8 cm to 8.1 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A bamboo and bamboo veneer 'kui-dragon' snuff bottle, 6 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection. Bamboo veneer (tiehuang) literally 'pasted yellow', sometimes also known as zhuhuang ('bamboo yellow') is made by stripping and flattening the thin inner lining of the cortex. It is a distinctively less grainy material than the outer skin of the cortex, and usually of a paler colour. It is an art form that was possibly developed in Jiangxi province, although once the art form was developed, it could…
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A Chinese enamelled silver 'dragon' snuff bottle, 4 cm high (with stopper). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese coconut-shell and a lacquered nut snuff bottles, 4.5 cm and 6.2 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Five Chinese snuff bottles of carved horn, bamboo, and amber, varying height from 5.2 cm to 7 cm high (5). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Five Chinese hard stone and metal snuff bottles, varying height from 4.8 cm to 6 cm (5). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese multi-colour glass overlay 'longevity and fortune' snuff bottle, Republic period, 6 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection. . Compare an almost identical bottle in the Bloch collection, see No. 114, Chinese Snuff Bottles: A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 18 March to 8 June 1994
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A group of four Chinese glass overlay snuff bottles, varying heights from 6.7 cm to 7.5 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of five Chinese snuff bottles of glass and hard stone, varying heights from 5.8 cm to 6.6 cm (5). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted opaque yellow glass snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 5.2 cm and 5.3 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted yellow glass snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 5.4 cm and 6.3 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Four Chinese painted glass and glass overlay snuff bottles, Guyue Xuan and Qianlong mark, varying heights from 5.2 cm to 6.7 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese painted milky glass snuff bottles, Guyue Xuan and Caihua Tang mark, varying heights from 4.2 cm to 5.5 cm (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Two Chinese painted opaque yellow glass snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 5.7 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese painted opaque yellow glass snuff bottles, Guyue Xuan mark, 4.5 cm and 5.5 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese ruby-red glass 'mallow flower' snuff bottle, 5.5 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection. The mallow flower is associated with the successful scholar and was thus a popular motif during the Qing dynasty. This bottle forms part of a series, all carved to follow the shape of the flower itself
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A Chinese red glass overlay 'floral' snuff bottle, 5.5 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese lacquer-red overlay glass snuff bottle, 5.5 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese multi-colour glass overlay snuff bottle, Yangzhou school, 19th century, 6.7 cm high. Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese green glass overlay 'gourd' snuff bottle, 5.8 cm. Provenance: Singapore private collection. Compare a glass overlay bottle with different colour scheme with same motif and shape, see CB-TA-1925-68 Baur Collection, P118, The Baur Collection, Geneva, Chinese Snuff Bottles
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A group of three Chinese glass overlay snuff bottles, Republic period and later, 5.3 cm, 6.2 cm, 6.8 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of three Chinese carved ruby-red glass snuff bottles, Late Qing to Republic period, 5.2 cm, 6 cm, 6.6 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of four Chinese ruby-red glass snuff bottles, Republic period and later, varying heights from 5.2 cm to 7.2 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of four Chinese glass overlay snuff bottles, varying heights from 5.1 cm to 6 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese monochrome glass snuff bottles, 5.8 cm, 6.2 cm, 6.8 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection. The rare shape of the blue bottle is a model of the cricket cages much in use during the second half of the Qing dynasty to house the fighting crickets with which all sections of society were obsessed. The collar has been applied separately, in a reference to the applied ivory collars of the originals
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Two Chinese carved glass snuff bottles, 4 cm and 4.9 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Four Chinese carved glass snuff bottles, varying height from 3.8 cm to 4.6 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Four Chinese monochrome glass snuff bottles, varying heights from 5.5 cm to 6.5 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese white and iridescent glass snuff bottles, 5 cm, 5.3 cm, 7 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese carved glass snuff bottles, 6 cm, 6.2 cm and 6.4 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A group of four Chinese glass overlay snuff bottles, varying height from 5.4 cm to 7.5 cm (4). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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Three Chinese polychrome glass snuff bottles, 6.5 cm, 6.7 cm, 7.5 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection
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A Chinese 'sandwich' glass snuff bottle with white and apple-green splashes, 19th century, 5.00 cm high. Provenance: Ex Paul Braga collection. NSW private collection Paul Braga
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A Chinese carved agate 'Sage' snuff bottle, 5.9 cm high, ''
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A Chinese inside-painted 'four arts' snuff bottle, Ye Zhongsan or the Ye family, dated by inscription 1924, 6.5 cm high
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A Burmese Shan style lacquered and carved wood figure of a standing Buddha, 54.5 cm high. Provenance: NSW private collection, acquired in Bangkok during the 1970s
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Two carved wooden figures of seated Guanyin, Late 17th century and later, 22 cm high, 33.5 cm high (2)
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A gilt-bronze figure of a seated Lama, 14.5 cm high. Provenance: Western Australia private collection, acquired in Shanxi, China in the 1950s (by repute)
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A bronze figure of Chakrasamvara, 26 cm high
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A gilt bronze figure of Chakrasamvara Tantra, 31 cm high. Provenance: NSW private collection, acquired locally on 11 Oct 1984 from Alan Landis Antiques, on commission for Joseph Neuman (receipt)
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A Chinese jian hare's fur tea bowl, 12th century, 12.4 cm diam
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A Chinese Jizhou brown-glazed tea bowl, 13th century, 11.2 cm diam
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A Chinese moulded Qingbai 'phoenix and peony' bowl, Yuan dynasty, 17. cm diam. Provenance: NSW private collection
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