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Chinese Bamboo Carving of the Hehe Erxian Happiness Twins Riding Upon a Three-Legged Toad

18th/ 19th century

Finely carved in the full round.  With great detail to the Boys, and the Toad with a wonderful comical expression. The wood of beautiful and warm brown tone.

Height: 12 ¼ inches  (31.5 cm.)

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Two Chinese White Ware/ Qingbai Ewers with String Design

Northern Song Dynasty, ca: 11th- 12th century

Of elegant form with cup form mouth, strap handle, and curved everted spout. Each with ornamental floral-shaped knot design beneath the spout. These sting design ewers in our view are among the most interesting and even whimsical types from this period.

Heights: 4 ¾ and 7 ¾ inches (12 and 19.7 cm.)

PROVENANCE
The smaller one from the Collection of Kai-Yin Lo; illustrated and described by Krahl: Bright as Silver, White as Snow, 1998, No. 51; and exhibited at the exhibition held at the Denver Art Museum. The second: from the Thomax Collection No. 1648, formed by Prof. Leif Sourander, Abo, Finland assembled from the 1960’s-1990s, and exhibited at the Arabia Museum, Helsinki, Finland, September- October, 1994.

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Chinese Famille Verte Porcelain Plate

Kangxi period, AD 1662-1722

Decorated with a scene of figures in a mountain pass.  All finely painted in bright famille verte enamels. The mountain scene is a classic decoration likely based upon a scene from a famed classic tale or painting.  The decorative style of this plate represents Chinese taste placed upon a more Western style plate presumably made for export to Europe.  In the earlier stages of the Kangxi period- such combinations are encountered as the trade and decorative tastes between East and West were developing.

Diameter: 14 ½ inches (36.8 cm.)

EX
Private European Collection

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Fine and Rare Chinese Yixing Pottery Teapot

Kangxi period, AD 1662-1722

Of realistic bamboo form with spotted decoration in imitation of the markings on the stalks.
All very finely and precisely fashioned in an elegant manner.

Height: 4 ¾ inches (12.2 cm.)

EX
Private European Collection
A virtually identical example from the historic collection of Augustus the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, is in the Zwinger Museum, Dresden.