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A PAIR OF PAINTED ENAMEL GU-SHAPED VASES PROVENANCE
GUANGXU PERIOD (1875-1908)
Roger Keverne Ltd., London.
Each vase is decorated around the bulbous mid-section with
composite foliate scrolls repeated on the trumpet-shaped and tall EXHIBITED
fared foot all within decorative borders. Each shoulder is further
decorated with three medallions enclosing a three-character hall Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics,
name, Lingdetang. London, August 2010, no. 61.

19Ω in. (50 cm.) high (2) The hallmark on the present pair of gu-form vases, Lingdetang (‘The Hall of
Virtue’), may be associated with the Lingde Academy in Taiyuan, which was
$8,000-12,000 founded by Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909) while he was the Governor (xunfu)
of Shanxi. An avid advocate of controlled reform, Zhang introduced Western
learning (xixue ) into the curricula of the many academies he had founded in
diferent cities.
清光緒 銅胎畫琺瑯纏枝蓮紋花觚一對 「令德堂」款

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