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ANOTHER PROPERTY PROPERTY FROM A TEXAS COLLECTION

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A PAINTED ENAMEL HU-FORM VASE A LARGE PAINTED ENAMEL BASIN
18TH CENTURY 18TH-19TH CENTURY

Each main side is well painted with a scene of scholars; one depicts The basin is decorated in the center of the interior with seven female
two seated scholars and two attendants watching two bats in fight, deities holding various precious objects, and two attendants carrying
and the other depicts a gathering of fve scholars in a mountainous jue on trays,all below vaporous clouds that partially obscure a pagoda.
landscape, both within a blue dragon-scroll border, and panels A band of large fsh and aquatic plants encircles this central scene
of naturalistic fower vignettes are within pink bat borders on the in the well, and the fat, barbed-petal rim is decorated with dense
narrow sides below the lug handles, all reserved on a fower scroll- leafy, foral meander on a yellow ground. The exterior and base are
decorated yellow ground between decorative borders. decorated with archaistic blue dragon scrolls.

11 in. (28 cm.) high 17Ω in. (44.4 cm.) wide

$15,000-20,000 $12,000-18,000

PROVENANCE PROVENANCE

Sotheby’s New York, 5 June 1985, lot 124. Christie’s London, 6 November 2012, lot 33.
Sotheby’s New York, 31 March-1 April 2005, lot 235.
清十八/十九世紀 銅胎畫琺瑯仙女圖菱花口洗

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