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A FAMILLE-ROSE ‘FLORAL’ DISH
YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD
the low rounded sides supported on a tapered
foot, richly painted to the interior with a central
medallion enclosing a rose spray, ‘Buddha’s
hand’ citron, asters, and jasmine surrounded
by a lime-green diaper band, the cavetto with a
broad lappet collar of alternating panels of pink
diaper and ! owers, all below a narrow gilt foliate
border, the exterior undecorated, the base with
a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a
double circle
Diameter 7⅞ in., 20 cm
$ 4,000-6,000
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A FAMILLE-ROSE ‘LADIES’ VASE
QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG
PERIOD
the ovoid body rising from a domed foot to a
cylindrical neck and galleried rim, painted around
the body with an aristocratic lady dressed in
pink and purple robes and gilt hair ornaments
sitting at marble-top writing table positioning a
sheet of paper or silk with one hand and holding
a brush with the other, an inkstone and ! oral
arrangement in a gu-form vase at one end of the
table, a boy eagerly watching at the other end, an
elegantly dressed attendant standing by with a
fan, further ceramics and plants completing the
scene, at the neck a beribboned pair of scrolls
amidst lingzhi, the base unglazed
Height 15¼ in., 38.7 cm
PROVENANCE
New York Private Collection.
$ 20,000-30,000
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