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A PAIR OF POYCHROME ENAMELED BALUSTER VASES A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED CIRCULAR LIDDED BOX
Qianlong marks, Republic period Qianlong mark, late Qing/Republic period
Each painted in iron red with flower sprays set against a dense Painted with a young prince on a fabulous beast, his royal mother
ground of tiny roundels outlined in blue enamel on a colorless glaze and an attendant holding with phoenix fan across the compressed
covering all surfaces except the foot pad, the recessed base bearing lid and flowering branches on the walls of the box bearing a four-
a six-character mark stamped in iron red. character mark written in iron red on the recessed base (chips,
8in (20.5cm) high hairline cracks).
3 3/8in (8.5cm) diameter
US$1,200 - 1,800
US$1,200 - 1,800
6325
A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED LONG NECKED VASE 6330
Jiaqing mark, late Qing/Republic period AN ASSEMBLED GROUP OF TEN SMALL FAMILLE ROSE
Its compressed globular body encircled with a continuous scene of ENAMELED CUPS
a Hundred Children celebrating in a palace garden painted in gilt and 19th century and later
colorful enamels beneath the yellow ground painted with flowering Including a set of five painted with a beauty playing the flute in a
branches on the waisted neck with applied dragon handles, the garden setting (hairline crack, chip); a set of three painted with
recessed base bearing the six-character mark in iron red seal script flowering branches below a diamond diaper band below the
surrounded by pale blue enamel also applied to the interior neck. rim (hairline crack, chips); the ninth on conical form painted with
10 1/4in (26cm) high auspicious fruits and assembled antiques; the last featuring a beauty
in a garden on the exterior walls and a rose pink floral band on the
US$1,000 - 1,500 interior edge of the flared rim (chipped).
2 5/8 to 2 3/4in (6.7 to 6.9cm) diameters
6326
A BLACK ENAMEL-DECORATED MINIATURE BOTTLE VASE US$1,200 - 1,800
Yongzheng mark
The slightly spreading neck and compressed ovoid body delicately Due to the large number of items in this lot, photographs and
painted in black enamel outline and wash with a prunus branch in condition reports of individual items will not be available.
flower amid bamboo stalks and reversed by a ten-character poem
inscribed between three puce enameled seals, the recessed base 6331
bearing the four-character mark in blue enamel enclosed within a A GROUP OF THREE POLYCHROME ENAMELED CUPS
double square. 19th century and later
4 1/2in (11.5cm) height of vase The first an export teacup painted in famille rose enamels with a
beauty and scholar (star crack); the second a sgraffito blue enameled
US$800 - 1,200 cup with gilt rim a painted with famille rose enameled blossoms,
the recessed base bearing a four-character Qianlong mark in
6327 underglaze blue seal script; the third an underglaze blue and famille
TWO POLYCHROME ENAMELED WINE CUPS rose enameled cup with floral decoration, bearing a stamped four-
The first, a wide shallow cup painted on the exterior in famille verte character Qianlong mark together with a matching ring shaped stand
enamels with the poet Tao Yuanming admiring chrysanthemums as painted en suite but unmarked; and a café-au-lait ground saucer with
he sits drinking wine in a garden, the countersunk base bearing a overglaze black flower decoration and underglaze blue lingzhi fungus
four-character Chenghua mark in underglaze blue (chipped rim); the mark (chipped). [5]
second cup of inverted bell form painted in gilt and iron red enamels 3 1/2 and 3 7/8in (9 and 9.8cm) diameters of the matching cup and
with a dragon chasing a flaming pearl through white enameled ring stand
waves, the recessed base bearing a six-character Xianfeng mark in
iron red seal script. US$1,200 - 1,800
2 7/8 and 2 1/2in (7.3 and 6.9cm) diameter
US$800 - 1,200
6328
A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED FOOD VESSEL AND COVER
Republic period
The wide domed cover and the curving walls of the compressed
globular container painted in bright colors and gilt with butterflies,
flowering plants and gourd vines, with twisted metal bail handles
hanging from gilt-enamels loops on the sides (cover finial chipped).
7 1/2in (19cm) diameter
US$1,000 - 1,500
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