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A SMALL FAMILLE ROSE HU-FORM VASE
REPUBLIC PERIOD (1911-1949)
The vase is fnely decorated on one side with narcissus and lingzhi growing around blue rocks and on
the reverse with branches of pink and white crabapple, the branch of pink blossoms entwined with a
convolvulous vine, and the neck is fanked by a pair of gilt-decorated iron-red handles formed as lingzhi
stems. The base has a four-character Hongxian yuzhi mark.
6æ in. (16.5 cm.) high
$15,000-25,000

PROVENANCE
Christie’s South Kensington, 15 July 2005, lot 391.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.
For a pair of small Hongxian-marked famille rose vases of similar hu shape, with similar handles, and of
slightly larger size (18.3 cm.), decorated with fgural scenes, see H. A. Van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the
19th and 20th Centuries, The Netherlands, 1977, p. 129, pl. 168.
民國 粉彩芝仙祝壽圖小如意耳尊

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