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Lot 36

PAIR OF FAHUA TURQUOISE-GROUND BARREL-SHAPED GARDEN SEATS, MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
Hammer price: £2,600
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
PAIR OF FAHUA TURQUOISE-GROUND BARREL-SHAPED GARDEN SEATS, MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY decorated with broad central bands showing peafowl amidst peonies and rocks divided by biscuit taotie masks, all between relief bosses, incised cloud clusters and Buddhist emblems, 38cm high Provenance: Rare Art Inc., New York, 11th December 1978. Note: For a similar Fahua garden seat see Harrison-Hall, J., Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London 2001, 13:34. Also, a comparable example was exhibited in The International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Burlington House, 1935, no. 1540.
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