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PROPERTY FROM A NORTH AMERICAN PRIVATE Compare similarly enameled bottle vases, rooms, 27th May 2008, lot 1765. A further pair
COLLECTION without the flared rim: a pair sold in our London sold in these rooms, 1st December 1992, lot
A BLACK-GROUND FAMILLE-VERTE rooms, 7th November 1946, lot 71, and another 349. See also a baluster-form example in the
‘FLORAL’ BOTTLE VASE sold at Christie’s London, 6th December 1993, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, coll. no.
QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG lot 124. An example of yenyen form and with C.1114-1910.
a band of scrolls at the footring, illustrated in
PERIOD R.L. Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, $ 6,000-8,000
the pear-shaped body resting on a slightly New York, 1925, pl. LIX, fig. 2, was exhibited
tapering foot and rising to a slender columnar at the International Exhibition of Chinese Art,
neck with a flaring rim, the exterior enameled Royal Academy, London, 1935-36, cat. no. 清雍正 墨地五彩纏枝花卉紋
with stylized blue and red flowerheads on a 2266, and sold twice in our London rooms:
meandering vine issuing fringed iron-red leaves, 25th June 1936, lot 91, and 5th July 1977, lot 長頸瓶
against a ground of further leafy scrolls, all 257. Another was exhibited in An Exhibition of
reserved on a lustrous black ground, stopping Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert
just below the rim and above the footring, the Chang Collection, Christie’s London, 1993, cat.
interior and recessed base glazed white no. 34, and sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 2nd
Height 8⅛ in., 20.6 cm November 1999, lot 530, and again in the same

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