Four Ceramic Items

Description:

Four Ceramic Items, China, a blue and white double-gourd-shaped bottle, decorated with floral designs alternating with scholarly object and horse designs, in shaped panels and roundels, (repaired) ht. 12 1/8; a blue and white bulbous jar on a raised foot, four-character Kangxi mark on base, painted with the eight immortals round the body, ht. 3 1/2; and two Qingbai-glazed six-lobed floral dishes with metal clad rims, dia. 4 3/8 in.
Provenance: Collection of Christopher and Roberta Bickford.
Estimate $700-900

bottle broken into pieces and repaired, floral dish with a chip to rim, numerous fine surface scratches to bottle and dishes.


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