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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE ‘LOTUS’ DISHES, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD, each with gently
curved sides rising to an everted rim, painted in varying tones of blue with two egrets in a pond amid budding, flowering, and leafing
lotus, one bird enjoying the shelter of a large lotus leaf, the water depicted with fine lines and pale blue wash, all within a line border at
the rim, the exterior encircled by leafy bamboo on one dish, the other with floral sprigs, the base with an underglaze blue wan symbol
within a double square within a double circle (2)

⌲Ꮴ⛆ 䱿㟞䌜䌜䕐⻾ృⰑ̭ᄺ
Diameter of each 8¼ in., 21 cm
$ 4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE ҳ⎽
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York. Ralph M Chait Galleries喑㈽㈱
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The particular combination of a pair of egrets, lotus pond, and reed painted on this pair of dishes is more than
simply an aesthetically pleasing composition. The grouping of these three elements illustrate the benevolent
wish lulu lianke, ‘May you pass the civil service examinations, one after the other.’

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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘HUNDRED ANTIQUES’ BOTTLE VASE, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD,
the ovoid body rising to a narrow cylindrical neck with a round bulb and trumpet mouth, painted in soft blue tones with four assemblages
of vessels of varying type bearing flowering branches, amid auspicious and scholarly objects, each group set between lappet borders
decorated with reserved lotus on blue ground, repeated at the neck below and above the ‘cracked-ice’ bulb, the base with a double circle in
underglaze blue with a wheel engraved Japanese Palace, Dresden inventory mark N:273

⌲Ꮴ⛆ 䱿㟞䪸ٶࢇऑృ䪤䵥⨣
Height 12⅜ in., 31.4 cm
$ 4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE ҳ⎽
Collection of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, ∏㭚స⢸㫖ٸḛ䖥ፊӜດऑ᫜➦ἰ喍1670 1733喎ᩣ㫼喑
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King of Poland (1670-1733), Saxony, Dresden, inv. 㫖ٸḛ喑ᓤ㉜᫜䵀喑㌕㮌N 273
no. N:273. Beatriz di Rovasenda ຠќ❢喍1911 2009喎ᩣ㫼
Collection of Countess Beatriz di Rovasenda (1911- Ralph M Chait Galleries喑㈽㈱
2009).
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

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