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Kangxi Porcelain – A Private Collection
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 127

A LARGE FAMILLE -VERTE 'ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS' YENYEN VASE, QING DYNASTY,
KANGXI PE RIOD
Estimate: 8,000 - 12,000 USD

A LARGE FAMILLE-VERTE 'ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS' YENYEN VASE
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
清康熙 五彩三國人物故事圖大鳳尾尊

the baluster-form body tapering to a splayed foot and surmounted by a tall trumpet neck rising to an everted rim, the body
brightly enameled with a continuous scene of spirited combat from the historic drama Sanguo yanyi (Romance of the Three
Kingdoms), possibly the Battle of Hulao Pass, depicting the famous warrior Lü Bu, in retreat, wearing his distinctive helmet with
two long feathers, wielding a halberd, astride a galloping horse being pursued by soldiers amid a green, hilly landscape, the neck
with further warriors carrying weapons in a balustraded garden pavilion with a female attendant

Height 30 in., 76 cm

Provenance
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 23rd May 1978, lot 161.
Sotheby's London, 11th December 1990, lot 400.

來源
香港蘇富比1978年5月23日，編號161
倫敦蘇富比1990年12月11日，編號400

Catalogue Note

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