Asian Art Day One - 19th May 2010

Lot 57

A Chinese ovoid vase

Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £2600

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Description

A Chinese ovoid vase, painted in underglaze blue and wucai enamels with a continuous scene of a procession of boys in a landscape, two bearing pennants, one carrying a parasol, one a flautist and one astride a Buddhist lion, the reverse with palm plant and rocks, Shunzhi period 1644-1661, cracked and chipped, 21cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Provenance: purchased from D & M Freedman, London.