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A Chinese Ruby Enameled Porcelain Baluster Vase
Estimate: $500-$700
Sold
$1,500
Live Auction
Property from the Aline Elwes McDonnell Trust
Description
A Chinese Ruby Enameled Porcelain Baluster Vase
Guangxu to Republic Period
with a raised ring around the flared neck, underside with double circle in underglaze blue.
Height 10 inches.
Condition
Generally overall good visual condition, scattered surface scratches and abrasions; slight potting flaws to edge of rim; scattered glaze pits, some stray ruby enamel to interior of lip, small ruby skip to edge of foot; under UV light no apparent repairs or restorations seen.
Provenance
Provenance:Aline Thorold (1869-1951) m. Ernest James Wythes (1868-1949) at Copped Hall, Essex, until 1917 and The Wood House, Essex, thereafter and by descent toBarbara Dorothy Wythes (1896-1984) m. (Francis) Guy Robert Elwes (1895-1966) at The Wood House, Essex until 1961 and Ham Spray House, Marlborough, thereafter and by descent to Aline Mary Margaret (Elwes) McDonnell (1923-2023) m. Hubert McDonnell Jr. (1919-2004), Greenwich, Connecticut, and thence by descentPictured:An 1807 engraving of Copped Hall, S. Rawle from a drawing by S. Shepherd.Aline Elwes McDonnell and Family, circa 1954.