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15 décembre 2009

Kangxi Chinese blue and white porcelains sold @ Christie's. European Noble and Private Collections, Amsterdam

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A Chinese blue and white 'double-walled' teapot and cover. Kangxi (1662-1722)

The globular sides divided in four honeycomb-pattern reticulated panels revealing a central flower-painted body, the outer body with a lotus design, the cover with flower-head reticulated design, moulded with upright handle and S-shaped spout simulating bamboo, minor rim frits, small baking flaw, frit, small cracks - 16 cm. high - Price Realized €5,625

A pair of Chinese blue and white 'double-walled' ewers and covers, Kangxi (1662-1722)

The pear-shaped bodies with two openwork panels pierced with a honeycomb pattern, revealing a body painted with stylised floral motifs, all below stylised foliage and flower-heads reserved on a washed-blue ground between whorl-pattern borders, moulded with long curved spouts and C-shaped handles, minor frits, small chips to the cover, crack - 21 cm. high (2) - Price Realized €16,250

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A Chinese blue and white Yanyan vase and a blue and white vase, Kangxi (1662-1722) and 19th Century

The body and tall neck both painted with a continuous scene of figures in a river-landscape, rim chip, 43.8 cm. high; and a blue and white vase painted to the baluster body with a continuous scene of a nobleman, 28 cm. high, minor glaze pits (2) - Price Realized €6,875

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A Chinese blue and white deep dish. Chenghua six character mark, Kangxi (1662-1722)

Decorated to the centre with five equestrian figures armed with swords and spears in full gallop, surrounded on the well and rim with panels of birds between branches of prunus and hydrangea on a wave-pattern ground, all within a narrow zigzag-pattern border at the rim, some small rim chips, frits - 37.2 cm. diam.  Price Realized €4,750

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An assorted lot of Chinese blue and white cups and saucers. Kangxi (1662-1722)

Comprising a set of eight coffee- cups and twelve saucers painted with leaf-shaped panels of flowers; a set of eight octagonal coffee-cups and eleven saucers; a set of eight tea-bowls and six saucers with floral decoration; a set of six coffee-cups and saucers with hatched leaves; a set of five tea-bowls and saucers painted with scattered flower-sprays; and one tea-bowl, minor frits, chips and hairlines (76) Price Realized €4,375

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A large Chinese blue and white bowl. Kangxi (1662-1722)

Painted to the exterior with a double row of panels with flowering branches of peony, the interior with a large roundel of peony-sprays below a band of vine at the rim, small superficial chips - 31.5 cm. diam. Price Realized €3,750

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A Chinese blue and white baluster jar and cover. Kangxi (1662-1722)

Painted with three large panels of prunus, peony and chrysanthemum, between ruyi-shaped panels including flower-scrolls on a washed-blue ground, all below two bands of flower-heads on the shoulder and foot, the cover broken and re-glued - 38 cm. high - Price Realized €3,750

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A Chinese blue and white bowl. Kangxi (1662-1722)

Painted to the exterior with sprays of prunus, chrysanthemum, lotus and peony, below a half-openwork keyfret border encircling the rim, the interior with moulded central panel surrounded by a band of symbols, four figures in flowing robes carrying flower-baskets at the well, minor rim frits - 19.2 cm. diam. Price Realized €3,000

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A Chinese blue and white 'klapmuts' bowl. Chenghua six character mark, Kangxi (1662-1722)

Painted to the exterior with a continuous scene of ladies and boys in a fenced garden landscape, the interior roundel decorated with three boys at play, below a diaper-pattern rim reserved with four floral cartouches, minor rim chip - 20 cm. diam. Price Realized €2,375

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A Chinese blue and white Yanyan vase, Kangxi (1662-1722)

Painted allover with lotus-scrolls, minor frits, some glaze pits - 43.5 cm. high - Price Realized €2,500

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A pair of Chinese blue and white bowls and covers. Kangxi (1662-1722)

Painted to the ribbed sides with ogival panels of figures in a landscape alternating with floral panels reserved on a diaper-pattern ground, the interior roundel painted with two figures in a landscape below a figure floating in the clouds, rim frits and chips, hairline crack. 19.6 cm. diam. (2) - Price Realized €2,000

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A Chinese blue and white sprinkler, a silver-mounted teapot and cover and a silver-mounted milk-jug and cover. Kangxi (1662-1722), the silver later

The sprinkler painted to the globular lower body with flower-heads, below two bands of shell- and diaper- motifs. all below a tall tapering neck with similar decoration, 16 cm. high; a globular teapot and cover decorated to the sides with Antiquities, 11.5 cm. high; and a milk-jug and cover decorated with flowers, 11 cm. high, minor frits (3) - Price Realized €1,875

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A set of six and two Chinese blue and white dishes. Kangxi (1662-1722)

Comprising a set of six 'floral' saucer dishes moulded with wavy rim, 20.5 cm. diam.; a moulded dish painted to the central roundel with figures on a boat-trip, 26 cm. diam.; and an octagonal dish with radiating panels of a solitary figure in a river-landscape alternated with floral panels, Xuande mark, 27.8 cm. diam., minor frits, chips and hairline cracks (8) Price Realized €1,875

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A set of six Chinese blue and white 'acupuncturist' saucers. Kangxi (1662-1722)

Decorated with the well-known scene known as the 'acupuncturist', showing a half-clad couple on a blanket below a willow-tree, the well moulded with a row of petals, below a keyfret-pattern band at the shaped rim, the reverse with floral panels, chips, frits and hairline cracks - 11 cm. diam. (6) Price Realized €1,625

An assembled set of twelve Chinese blue and white 'Long Eliza' cups and saucers. Kangxi (1662-1722) and later

Painted to the central roundel with a seated lady, surrounded by radiating ladies, the cups painted with Long Eliza's alternated with flower sprays, minor chips and hairlines (24) Price Realized €1,500

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A pair of Chinese blue and white jars and covers. Kangxi (1662-1722)

Decorated to the globular sides with sprays of prunus and chrysanthemum, the circular flat covers painted with a flower-branch, the rims glazed brown, the cover, shoulders and footring decorated with a band of ruyi-heads, small hairline crack - 14.5 cm. high (2) Price Realized €1,375

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Two Chinese blue and white dishes. Kangxi (1662-1722)

Both painted with a central lotus flower surrounded by a band of ruyi-heads enclosed by radiating panels including flowers, the rim decorated with radiating lappet-shaped panels of peach, peony and chrysanthemum, rim frits, one dish with rim crack - 38 and 39.5 cm. diam. (2) Price Realized €1,250

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A Chinese blue and white pear-shaped vase. Kangxi (1662-1722)

The baluster sides painted with four large flower-heads, between horizontal floral bands, the tall flaring neck painted with stylised petals, all between brown-glazed bands - 20.5 cm. high - Price Realized €1,000

Christie's. European Noble and Private Collections. 15 - 16 December 2009. Amsterdam www.christies.com

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