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43. Famille rose circular fluted tobacco leaf pomegranate tureen stand, painted in the centre with three ripe pomegranates
with seeds and arils exposed, above underglaze blue, yellow, turquoise and green enamel tobacco leaves decorated with
flowers and heightened in gilt, beneath further flower sprays at the rim.
11 ⅜ inches, 28.9 cm diameter.
Qianlong, 1736-1795.
• From a Belgium private collection.
• A smaller pair from the collection of Mrs E. S. Smyth were sold by Christie’s London in their auction of Fine Chinese
Export Porcelain and Works of Art, 12th November 1979, lot 58, p. 19; another pair were sold by Sotheby’s London in
their auction of Fine Chinese Export Porcelain, 18th November 1986, lot 205, pp. 48/9.
• A smaller pair with pomegranate tureens and covers were purchased by Marchant in Sotheby’s London auction
of Chinese Export Porcelain and Decorative Works of Art, 9th May 1989, lot 261, and were sold by Marchant,
6th March 1990.
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