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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JAMES E. BREECE, III
1800
A FAMILLE VERTE GILT-DECORATED POWDER BLUE-GROUND
ROULEAU VASE
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The tall vase is decorated with four lobed panels on a powder-blue ground
decorated with gilt chrysanthemums, the panels depicting elegant ladies
in a garden scene enjoying various leisurely pursuits including playing with
a kitten. The shoulder and lower body are each decorated with four lobed
cartouches and the neck with two fan-shaped cartouches, enclosing various
landscapes, birds and mythical beasts.
18 in. (45.7 cm.) high
$10,000-12,000

PROVENANCE
The Collection of Marco Daniel (d. 1978), San Francisco.
Compare the Kangxi-period rouleau vase similarly decorated with shaped
panels of elegant ladies at leisurely pursuits rendered in famille verte enamels
against a gilt-decorated power-blue ground, sold at Christie’s New York, 17
March 2017, lot 1258. See, also, the pair of similarly decorated Kangxi rouleau
vases, but with panels of birds of fowers, formerly in the Jakob Goldschmidt
Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 24 March 2004, lot 205, and the pair
decorated with panels of antiques, birds and fowers, and landscapes, for-
merly in the collections of Henry Clay Frick, J. P. Morgan and James Garland,
sold at Christie’s New York, 13-14 September 2018, lot 1355.
清十八/十九世紀 藍地描金五彩仕女花鳥紋棒槌瓶

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