Chinese Art
A pair of famille rose cylindrical vases
Kun maker's marks, signed Wang Dafan, dated by inscription to 1928 Each of tall cylindrical form and finely decorated around the exterior with a Luohan seated in meditation before a three-legged incense burner, a halo around his head with bushy eyebrows and scraggly beard, behind the sage stands a boy-attendant in red carrying a fly-whisk, a long calligraphic inscription on the reverse side, boxes. Each 28.5cm high. (4).
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Provenance: purchased from Alex Koh, Singapore, on 24 February 1997Quek Kiok Lee Collection (1921 – 2018), Singapore, and thence by descent.