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                                                                          ETERNAL STYLE: A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION                          A PAIR OF LIME-GREEN-GROUND FAMILLE-      清乾隆至道光 粉彩開光群仙祝壽圖龍耳
                                                                          A LARGE FAMILLE-ROSE FIGURE OF A                                      ROSE ‘IMMORTALS’ VASES                    瓶一對
                                                                          CAPARISONED ELEPHANT                                                  QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG - DAOGUANG
                                                                          QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG / JIAQING PERIOD                               PERIOD                                    來源
                                                                          Length 15 in., 38.1 cm                                                (2)                                       康州私人收藏
                                                                                                                                                Height 10⅜ in., 26.5 cm
                                                                          This elephant figure would have originally carried a vase
                                                                          on its back, forming the rebus taiping youxiang (‘peaceful
                                                                          times’). Compare a pair of elephants of similar size and              PROVENANCE
                                                                          modeling: one sold at Christie’s London, 31st October 1977,           Connecticut Private Collection.
                                                                          lot 85, and the other sold in these rooms, 20th-22nd April
                                                                          2018, lot 1058. See also two examples illustrated in Xu               $ 6,000-8,000
                                                                          Huping ed., Treasures in the royalty: the official kiln porcelain
                                                                          of the Chinese Qing dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, pp 286-287,
                                                                          and a pair published in William R. Sargent, The Copeland
                                                                          Collection: Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures, Milan,
                                                                          1991, pl. 94. A further pair sold most recently at Christie’s
                                                                          Hong Kong, 29th May 2022, lot 2872.
                                      363                                 $ 8,000-12,000

                                                                          清乾隆 / 嘉慶   粉彩「太平有象」擺件











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                                                                          A LARGE FAMILLE-ROSE ‘LOTUS’ EMBLEM
                                                                          STAND
                                                                          SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG
                                                                          the foot rim with a six-character seal mark in iron red
                                                                          Height 12½ in., 31.6 cm

                                                                          PROVENANCE
                                                                          Sotheby’s New York, 14th March 2017, lot 536.

                                                                          $ 20,000-30,000
                                                                          清乾隆   粉彩八寶蓮花臺
                                                                          《大清乾隆年製》款

                                                                          來源
                                                                          紐約蘇富比2017年3月14日,編號536







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