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                                                                                                                                                                     A PAIR OF MONKEY AND PEACH WATER
                                                                                                                                                                     DROPPERS AND A SMALL HORSE
                                                                                                                                                                     19TH CENTURY

                                                                                                                                                                     The horse, swimming in frothy waves

                                                                                                                                                                     4º in. (11 cm.) long, the water dropper

                                                                                                                                                                     3º in. (9 cm.) long, the horse           (3)

                                                                                                                                                                     $3,000-5,000

                                                                                                                                                                     PROVENANCE:

                                                                                                                                                                     Phillips, London, June 2001.

                                                                                                                                                                     LITERATURE:

                                                                                                                                                                     op. cit., pp. 197, no. 14.2

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A VERY LARGE FAMILLE ROSE PUNCHBOWL
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY                                                                                                                     A VERY LARGE PAIR OF CANTON FAMILLE ROSE VASES
                                                                                                                                            19TH CENTURY
The interior depicts panels of court scenes within gilt key-fret
borders, on a ground rich with birds, bats, butterfies and fowers, the                                                                      Each with a scalloped rim, enameled to neck and body with
rim with a wide band of exotic butterfies, fruit and fowers on a gilt                                                                       rectangular panels enclosing courtly scenes depicting people gathering
ground                                                                                                                                      on pavilion terraces, the shoulders applied with gilt kui-dragons and
                                                                                                                                            the neck with gilt lions handles
18Ω in (45.7 cm.) diameter
                                                                                                                                            35º in. (90.2 cm.) high                                           (2)
$10,000-15,000
                                                                                                                                            $10,000-15,000

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