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A PAIR OF LARGE CANTON FAMILLE
ROSE VASES WITH GILT HANDLES
19TH CENTURY

Enameled to neck and body with rectangular
panels enclosing courtly scenes depicting
Chinese people at leisure gathering on
pavilion terraces, reserved on a blue ground
strewn with fowers, birds and butterfies,
the neck and shoulder applied with gilt kui-
dragons and bird handles

23Ω in. (59.7 cm.) (2)

$10,000-15,000

PROPERTY FROM THE SOWELL COLLECTION 223

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A RARE SMALL PAIR OF PEACOCKS
EARLY 19TH CENTURY 115

Each with iron-red bodies, tails in green and
wings in polychrome, standing on green
rocks beside a branch of fowering prunus

6 in. (15 cm.) high (2)

$7,000-10,000

LITERATURE:

op. cit., p. 234, no. 16.9.