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A Chinese Blue and White Vase

Auction Lot FS41/519

A Chinese blue and white vase of baluster form with waisted slender neck and ruyi handles, painted with scrolling peony, lingzhi sprays and foliage between ruyi-head and lappet borders at the rim and foot, six-character Qianlong seal mark, bears a fragment of a collector's paper label, 27cm high [tiny flat chip to one ruyi handle terminal]. Please note there will be no online bidding for this lot. If you wish to bid on this lot you will be required to pay a deposit of £5000, which will enable you to bid by telephone, in person, or by absentee bidding (Unsuccessful bidders deposits will be refunded). All requests for bidding and all cleared funds for deposits must be received by 12 noon on Tuesday 29th January 2019.
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A Chinese Blue and White Vase (FS41/519) offered in our Two Day Fine Art Sale starting on 29th January 2019 at our salerooms in Exeter, Devon.

Lot Description

A Chinese blue and white vase of baluster form with waisted slender neck and ruyi handles, painted with scrolling peony, lingzhi sprays and foliage between ruyi-head and lappet borders at the rim and foot, six-character Qianlong seal mark, bears a fragment of a collector's paper label, 27cm high [tiny flat chip to one ruyi handle terminal]. Please note there will be no online bidding for this lot. If you wish to bid on this lot you will be required to pay a deposit of £5000, which will enable you to bid by telephone, in person, or by absentee bidding (Unsuccessful bidders deposits will be refunded). All requests for bidding and all cleared funds for deposits must be received by 12 noon on Tuesday 29th January 2019.

Provenance

An English Private Collection By Descent Through The Blackett/Adnams Family. The Vase Was Acquired By Annie Madeline Glover B 1885 [daughter Of Annie Adnams B 1857] Who Arrived In Shanghai To Teach In September 1910. She Married Accountant James Arthur Burke-Scott There In 1912, Had A Son In 1913 And Was Widowed In 1918. Subsequently She And Her Son Pat Moved Back To This Country In 1922 On The P&O Steamship 'Egypt', Eventually Settling In Bloomfield Park, Bath From Where The Vase Was Passed On To The Present Owner.

Price Realised

£460,000

Department

Ceramics and Glass

Sale Information

FS41: Two Day Fine Art Sale
Tuesday, 29th January 2019
Wednesday, 30th January 2019

Okehampton Street, Exeter

This lot will be sold after 10:00am on Wednesday, 30th January 2019 as part of the Oriental and European Ceramics and Glassware section of the sale.

Contact

For more information about this particular auction lot, please contact:-

Okehampton Street, Exeter

Telephone: +44 (01392) 413100

Important Notes

Weights and measurements are approximate guidelines only, unless otherwise stated to the contrary.

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