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A RARE CHINESE EXPORT FAMILLE-ROSE
‘DON QUIXOTE’ DISH
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA
1755-70
the shallow rounded sides rising from a recessed base to a
broad flaring rim, finely enamelled to the front face with a
medallion enclosing Don Quixote wearing a barber’s bowl as
the Helmet of Mambrino, after an image by Charles-Antoine
Coypel (1694-1752), the rim with gilt and iron-red floral
sprays within chain and floral scroll bands
23.5 cm, 9¼ in.
£ 3,000-5,000
HK$ 30,800-51,500 US$ 3,950-6,600
清乾隆 約1755至1770年 外銷粉彩唐吉
訶德圖小盤

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A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE-VERTE ARMORIAL
JARS
QING DYNASTY, CIRCA 1720
each rising from a spreading foot to an ovoid body and
tapering to a short neck, brightly painted to the exterior in
blue, green, red enamels and gilding with the arms of the
Order of St. Dominic, above a leafy cartouche and flanked by
colourful flowering stems
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19.7 and 19.5 cm, 7¾ and 7⅝ in.
Compare a closely related vase in the Museu Nacional de
Arte Antiga, Lisbon, illustrated in Nuno de Castro, A Por-
celana Chinesa e Os Brasões do Império, Porto, 1987, p. 72.

£ 15,000-25,000
HK$ 154,000-257,000 US$ 19,700-32,800
清 約1720 彩繪描金徽章紋罐一對

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