Estimate: $100 - $200
Price Realized: $80 Includes buyer's premium
An individually molded Chinese export porcelain ceremonial temple altar fruit fashioned in the form of a pomegranate or persimmon, naturalistically modeled with a lobed body covered in a rich iron-red monochrome glaze and featuring an applied, unglazed brown earthenware maker’s seal mark stamped in standard Chinese script along the side
Porcelain, glaze, enamel
3 x 4 x 4 inches
wax seal
From an Upper West Side Collection
Very Good condition; negligible superficial glaze anomalies from the original firing process and fully intact green enamel pigments
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