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A PAIR OF PAINTED ENAMEL RECTANGULAR JARDINIÈRES
LATE 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each vessel is decorated on the long sides with a pair of birds seated on a magnolia branch beside peonies
growing amidst rocks, and on the ends with a pair of long-tailed birds, one perched on a branch looking
at its mate standing on rocks surrounded by chrysanthemums, while the canted corners are decorated
with fowering and fruiting double-gourd vines repeated on and below the fat rim and on the four shaped
supports, all on a pale turquoise ground.
9√ (25.8 cm.) long, hongmu stands
(2)
$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE
Acquired in Hong Kong, 1950s, and thence by descent within the family.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.
The decoration of magnolia and peony on the long sides represents spring and that of chrysanthemums
on the ends represents autumn.
清十八世紀晚期/十九世紀早期 銅胎畫琺瑯花鳥圖長方盆一對

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