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The Property of a Lady 女士藏品

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                                                                                                                                   A pair of blue and white vases and covers
                                                                                                                                   Kangxi
                                                                                                                                   Each vase brightly painted with two panels
                                                                                                                                   containing very similar scenes of three ladies
                                                                                                                                   and a boy inside a palace looking over the walls
                                                                                                                                   at another lady in the garden accompanied by
                                                                                                                                   two maids with fans, the garden strewn with
                                                                                                                                   precious objects and flowers in vases, all above a
                                                                                                                                   decorative band containing scrolling medallions
                                                                                                                                   above a row of foliate lappets pointing down
                                                                                                                                   to the foot, the covers each painted with a
                                                                                                                                   collection of precious objects in the medallion
                                                                                                                                   encircled by floral lappets around the rim.
                                                                                                                                   Each 39.5cm (15½in) high (4).
                                                                                                                                   £8,000 - 12,000
                                                                                                                                   HK$94,000 - 140,000 CNY75,000 - 110,000

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