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Lot 1003
Two Pairs of Chinese Funerary Urns
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Includes an unglazed pair with garlic mouth and long ribbed neck with a dragon encircling, below a snake and bird rest on a wavy border near top of the body (19 in., 7 in. diameter)(losses to dragon on both; one dragon with repair; loss to bird's head on one; the other without any animals to wavy rim; chip/s to foot rim on both), and a second taller pair of Song dynasty style or period funerary urns glazed in and with elaborate high relief decoration, with pyramid shaped covers topped with graceful arched bird finials (HOA 29 in, 6 in. diameter)(nicks and chips to edges and rims of both; professional restoration to one lappet leaf).

From a Private Collection, Washington, D.C.