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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.
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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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