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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F.
BROWN
1583
A FINELY DECORATED FAMILLE VERTE DISH
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)
The center is finely decorated with Li Bai leaning against a
tiered rock formation while drinking wine from a cup. The base
is inscribed with an apocryphal Chenghua mark.
6º in. (15.8 cm.) diam., cloth box
$5,000-7,000
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, England.
Roger Keverne, London, 2009.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

EXHIBITED:
London, Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and
Ceramics - Summer Exhibition, June 2009.
LITERATURE:
Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and
Ceramics - Summer Exhibition, London, 2009, p. 56, no. 44.
1583 The scene depicted on the dish illustrates the poem Drinking
Alone in the Moonlight, by the Tang dynasty (AD 618-907) poet
Li Bai.

清雍正 五彩太白醉酒圖盤

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F.
BROWN
1584
A FAMILLE VERTE DOUBLE-GOURD VASE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The upper body is decorated with alternating chrysanthemum
blossoms and shou characters, and the lower body with a
border of pendent ruyi-head containing chrysanthemum scroll
on a stippled ground, all between stylized borders.
17æ in. (45 cm.) high, cloth box
$12,000-18,000
PROVENANCE:
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, August 1982.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

A famille verte double-gourd vase of the same design and
comparable size (17√ in. high) was sold at Christie’s New York,
24 March 2011, lot 1719.

清康熙 五彩壽字雲肩紋葫蘆瓶

1584