A Chinese Ochre Ground Grisalle Decorated Porcelain Zun Vase

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

清中期茶葉末地喜上眉梢雙耳尊
having a bulbous, globular body rising from a stout lipped foot, with wide shoulder narrowing before a columnar neck flaring at the mouth rim. Flanked at opposing shoulder with loop handles descending from bat-form mounts. The front intricately painted with a pair magpies roosting in the serpentine curves of a gnarled prunus outgrowth from moss-covered rocks. The reverse sparsely painted with a pair of butterflies at the neck.

Height 13 3/4 in., 35 cm.

Property from The Strong National Museum of Play, sold to benefit the Collections Fund

AIice Motley Woodbury (1859-1933).

Margaret Woodbury Strong (1897-1969), by descent.

Accessioned by the Strong in 1978.

Having surface scratches across the body, alongside rubbing to enamels. Pitting to the glaze most concentrated at the mouth. The underside showing moderate shelfwear at the foot, and the interior and recesses soiled.

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Annie Wu

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Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.

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Strong Diversions: Property from a Lifetime of Play

A Chinese Ochre Ground Grisalle Decorated Porcelain Zun Vase

Strong Diversions: Property from a Lifetime of Play

A Chinese Ochre Ground Grisalle Decorated Porcelain Zun Vase

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