Description
comprising; a moonflask-form bottle finely painted in underglaze blue with a pair of chickens, the other side with a fisherman all within diaper borders, the base with apocryphal Yongzheng mark, three cylindrical underglaze blue and red bottles, one with phoenix and rider in flight, one with a dragon, and one with figures leading a horse, a polychrome octagonal bottle with boys, peach and bat, a soft paste underglaze blue meiping form bottle with warrior on horseback pursuing a farmer and cart, a flattened oval polychrome bottle with landscape, the reverse with figures, and an underglaze blue cylindrical bottle with a hawk perched in a pine tree, looking down on a rodent (8)
Dimensions
tallest 8cm high
Footnote
Provenance: Selected contents from the estate of the late Lady Mary Stewart - see lot 151 for further information.
Acquired two from Aldric Young, 1971 and 1978, one from Janet Lumsden, 1968