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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANN AND
GORDON GETTY
A PAIR OF FAMILLE-ROSE ALTAR
STANDS
JIAQING SEAL MARKS AND
PERIOD
each modeled in four sections as a lotus plant
surmounted by a ring enclosing one of the ‘Eight
Auspicious Emblems’, the domed base painted in
bright enamels with keyfret, lappets, and scrolling
lotus and supporting the vertical stylized stem
issuing openwork leaves, the lotus blossom above
with deftly modeled pink petals surrounding a
broad lime-green pod, topped with a yellow-
ground ring painted with scrolling lotus and
centered with either an openwork scrolling lotus
or a beribboned blue and white jar, the interior of
the base enameled turquoise and centered with a
reserved six-character seal mark in iron red (2)
Height: 11⅜ in., 28.9 cm
PROVENANCE
Christie’s London, 1st December 1997, lot 114.
$ 20,000-30,000
697
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AN IRON-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-
BLUE ‘MYTHICAL BEAST’ BOWL
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND
PERIOD
the deep rounded sides rising from a slightly
tapered foot to a ! ared rim, painted on the
exterior with a continuous frieze of mythical
beasts including winged horses, dragons and
chimeras against cresting waves, the rim
encircled by a keyfret band, the foot with a
crenellated border, the interior with a central
medallion enclosing a winged dragon writhing
among waves, the base with a six-character seal
mark
Diameter 8⅜ in., 21.2 cm
Compare a similar bowl included in the
exhibition Gems of Chinese Art. Selections of
Chinese Ceramics and Bronzes from the Tsui
Art Foundation, The Empress Palace Museum,
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Singapore, 1992, cat. no. 111; and another, from
the Donnelly Collection, included in the Oriental
Ceramic Society exhibition The Animal in Chinese
Art, London, 1968, cat. no. 164.
$ 10,000-15,000
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