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PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN COLLECTION
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A LARGE ROSE-VERTE PHOENIX-TAIL VASE
LATE KANGXI-EARLY YONGZHENG PERIOD
The vase is brightly enameled with the immortal Liu
Hai holding a wine gourd, the three-legged toad of
wealth beside him and an attendant bringing him a
vessel flled with cash, the reverse with bats fying
among pine and sacred fungus, and the neck with a
scholar seated in front of a scroll.
17Ω in. (44.4 cm.) high
$15,000-25,000

PROVENANCE
Chait Galleries, New York, 23 October 2005.
Christie’s New York, 27 January 2014, lot 416.
清康熙/雍正 五彩 「劉海戲蟾」 鳳尾尊

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CIRCULAR
BOXES AND COVERS
SHENDETANG ZHI FOUR-CHARACTER
MARKS IN IRON RED, DAOGUANG PERIOD
(1821-1850)
Each box is delicately decorated with butterfies in
fight above a naturalistic scene of rocks, fowers
and grasses, with a praying mantis perched on a
tall, slender stalk to one side.
9¡ in. (23.7 cm.) diam.
(2)
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE
Ofered Christie’s New York, 2 June 1994, lot 421.
清道光 粉彩花蝶紋蓋盒一對
礬紅「慎德堂製」 四字楷書款

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