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A PAIR OF PORCELAIN PLAQUES
Of tall rectangular section depicting snowy mountain scenes of lonely
pavilions by winter waterways, the first entitled han chuang xue du or
‘Reading the Snow by a Cold Window’ and the second entitled kong
shan ji xue or ‘Snow Piling Up in an Empty Mountain;’ both bearing
signatures and seals of He Xuren and bearing a xinwei and Minguo
ershi nian date equivalent to 1931 (losses to enamels, scratches).
32in (81.3cm) visible height of porcelain
US$8,000 - 10,000
Provenance
acquired in Portland, Oregon, in the 1950s, by repute
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