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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE LITERATURE
COLLECTION
R. Soame Jenyns and William Watson, Chinese Art II, New
A PAIR OF CANTON ENAMEL HU-FORM VASES York, 1966, pl. 110.
AND COVERS Compare further Qianlong mark and period painted enamel
QIANLONG MARKS AND PERIOD vessels referencing archaic bronze forms, such as a hu-form
vase decorated with ß oral roundels against white ground,
each of ß attened quatrefoil section with the pear-shaped in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the
body supported on a splayed foot and sweeping to a broad Museum’s exhibition Enamel Ware in The Ming and Ch’ing
neck ß anked with archaistic phoenix-form handles, Þ nely Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, cat. no 145; and a pair of gu-form
painted in bright famille-rose enamels on a turquoise vases, decorated with foliage and leaves against a turquoise
ground with a dense ß oral meander centered on a large ground, sold at Christie’s Paris, 8th June 2010, lot 218.
lotus blossom issuing further leafy blooms, below a foliate
band set between two spearhead borders in blue and $ 60,000-80,000
yellow, further ß oral meanders around the neck and foot
between ribbon-twist borders around the rim and base, the 㶭Ḧ昮ġġġ戭偶䔓䏢䐗㜦䞛䵈⛘丷㝅䔒咖䲳㴟
conforming cover similarly decorated and surmounted with 㢈⺷暁俛味⢢ᶨ⮵
a bud-form knop, the interior enameled turquoise, the base
white-enameled with a six-character mark in blue within a ˪⣏㶭Ḧ昮⸜墥˫㫦
double square (4) Ը๕
Height 17¾ in., 45 cm
HonįġNellieġIonidesġ⣓Ṣġĩ1883Į1962Īġ㓞啷
PROVENANCE ΐ㔎喯⭴㭼1964⸜2㚰18㖍炻䶐嘇182
Collection of the Hon. Mrs. Nellie Ionides (1883-1962). ΐ㔎喯⭴㭼1994⸜11㚰8㖍炻䶐嘇355
Sotheby’s London, 18th February 1964, lot 182. TheġChineseġPorcelainġCompany炻䲸䲬
Sotheby’s London, 8th November 1994, lot 355. ̈و
The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York.
RįġSoameġJenynsġ⍲ġWilliamġWatson炻˪ChineseġArtġII˫炻
䲸䲬炻1966⸜炻⚾䇰110

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