Three blue and white wares
Qing dynasty, Kangxi period

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW SOUTH WALES

comprising a saucer dish, painted in the centre with peonies and rockwork in a medallion within radiating sprig panels and a frieze of fowerheads, repeated on the underside, leaf mark, an 'Aster' pattern saucer dish, wan mark, and a kendi painted with phoenix among flowering stems

(3)
28 cm and 21.7 cm diameter, 21 cm high

Condition Report

The first dish - some glaze flaked off around the rim, a hairline crack from the rim approx 3 cm, some small spots where glaze not adhered in the central medallion, a chip approx 0.8 cm on the footrim The second dish - some glaze flaked off around the rim, some frits around the footrim The kendi - the neck restored.

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