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8114

PROPERTY OF VARIOUS OWNERS
8114
A PAIR OF ENAMELED PORCELAIN ‘GEESE’ CUPS
Republic period
Each with a curving well rising to a vertical wall, covered overall with
glaze of slightly greenish hue, the exterior painted with a continuous
scene of geese on a riverbank among chrysanthemums and reeds,
beneath the gilded rim, supported on a flat unglazed foot ring, the
recessed foot with a seal mark in iron-red reading Xiezhu zhuren zao.
2 1/2in (6.3cm) diameter

$6,000 - 8,000
民國 彩繪礬紅秋塘戲鵝圖盃一對 《嶰竹主人造》款

PROPERTY FROM A FLORIDA ESTATE FORMED IN CUBA
PRIOR TO 1950
8115
A MINIATURE ENAMELED PORCELAIN VASE
Qianlong mark
The garlic bulb mouth is encircled by overlapping plantain leaves and
the pear-shaped body painted in bright enamels with a seated beauty
watching two children pluck a branch from an autumn-flowering
tree reversed by a garden rock below an inscription bearing the
puce-colored painted seals of Lang Shining (Giuseppe Castiglione,
1688-1768), the recessed base bearing the four-character mark in
overglaze blue enamel.
3 1/2in (9cm) high

$3,000 - 5,000
琺瑯彩母子圖袖珍蒜頭口瓶

The vase bears a similarly composed painting to a piece in the
collection of Simon Kwan, published and illustrated in his book
8115 Chinese Porcelain of the Republic Period (Hong Kong, 2000), cat.
no. 135, pp. 320-1, and compares favorably to one sold in our San
Francisco salesrooms 11 December 2012, lot 8150A.
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