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THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN GENTLEMAN
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A LIME-GREEN-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE ‘THREE RAMS’ VASE The three rams, sanyang, symbolise a change of fortune with the arrival
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF THE of Spring and the New Year. A vase with a similar decoration dated to the
PERIOD (1796-1820) Daoguang period, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 2 December 2015,
The rounded body is fanked on either side of the neck with an iron-red lot 3229.
elephant handle and is delicately enamelled with a continuous scene depicting
three rams in a garden setting, amongst pine trees, budding fowers and 清嘉清 綠地粉彩三陽開泰瓶 礬紅六字篆書款
rockwork, all set between a border of ruyi-heads on a lime-green ground
detailed with composite foral sprays. The neck is decorated on each side with 來源: 歐洲私人珍藏
an elaborate fower head surrounded by leafy tendrils on a lime-green ground.
The vase is mounted as a lamp.
12¡ in. (31.5 cm.) high
£8,000-12,000 $12,000-17,000
€9,200-14,000

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262 Other fees apply in addition to the hammer price – see Section D of our Conditions of Sale at the back of this Catalogue