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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
                                                                              ૶ྗᅅ   ४੹ᇳၽɞᘒԶኜɓ࿁
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                                                                              Ը๕
                                                                              ࡐ౱Գɻ੻1997ϋ12˜1˚dᇜ໮114

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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,
                                      698
                                                                              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
                                                                              ૶৻ඤ   ڡڀᘦߎ੹ऎᖕ७䋘
                                                                              ɽ૶৻ඤϋႡ‘ಛ



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