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PROPERTY FROM A TEXAS COLLECTION

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A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL VASE

18TH CENTURY

The vase, with animal head-and-loose ring handles, is painted in
the famille rose palette with two large panels, one depicting Shoulao
and his attendant in a rocky landscape looking up at a crane in fight
above, and the other depicting the rebus haiwu tianchou, ‘adding a
chip to the house in the sea’, or ‘may you live to a ripe old age’. The
panels are within phoenix borders surrounded by foral scroll on
an aubergine ground between ruyi borders. The neck and foot are
decorated with bats and clouds against a pale blue ground.
13º in. (33.6 cm.) high
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

Roger Keverne Ltd., London.

EXHIBITED

Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics,
London, Summer 2012, no. 50.

清十八世紀 銅胎畫琺瑯壽老圖獸首銜環耳瓶

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