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Chinese Works of Art
Ceramics
Yixing Stoneware
Yixing Pottery from the Monterey Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Museum Funds; Acquired by the Museum in 1993
Lot 8104

A miniature hexagonal slip-decorated Yixing pottery bird feeder

28 June 2016, 12:00 PDT
San Francisco

Sold for US$1,250 inc. premium

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A miniature hexagonal slip-decorated Yixing pottery bird feeder

The interior covered in a lining of turquoise enamel, the exterior covered in an intricate continuous landscape of trees and pavilions carefully rendered in white slip.
1 1/2in (4cm) wide

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宜興堆彩餵鳥器

Though clearly rendered on a much smaller scale, the still impressively intricate slip landscape decoration to the sides of this very tiny feeder compares surprisingly favorably with the longer and more elaborate slip-decorated landscape edge found on the Yongzheng-era imperial Yixing stoneware inkstone offered as part of Bonhams Hong Kong sale 19621 of 28 November 2011, Yixing Stoneware from the Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Hawthorn Collection: lot 250.

Please note that this lot is being offered without reserve.
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