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PROPERTY FROM A FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTION
法國私人珍藏

[LOTS 15 - 43]

Mrs. Henry Mazot, in Beijing in the 1930s. Lots 15 to 43 are part of a collection of
The family house in Beijing in the 1930s.
Chinese art that was formed in China by
a French gentleman during the frst half
of the 20th century. Henry Mazot (1882-
1956) had arrived in Beijing in the early
1920s to work at the Beijing ofice of the
Banque d’Indochine of which he fnished
by being head of. He spent more than 25
years in Beijing with his wife and their
three daughters where they enjoyed a
comfortable lifestyle among the French
community with large residences in Beijing
and at the countryside. When he came back
to France in 1946 he proudly displayed his
collection in his old familial mansion in
Normandy. Some of his full trunks brought
back from China had never been opened
until today.

Mr. Henry Mazot (1882-1956), in Beijing in
the 1930s.

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BRULE-PARFUM COUVERT EN BRONZE
CHINE, XVIIEME SIECLE

De section rectangulaire, il repose sur quatre pieds à décor de tête de
chimère. Flanqué par deux anses en forme de tête d’animal mythique,
la panse est ornée d’une scène continue de créatures fantastiques
émergeant des fots tumultueux. Le couvercle ajouré, surmonté
d’une prise ovale, est agrémenté de deux paires de phénix et dragons
volant parmi des nuages. La base porte une marque apocryphe de
l’empereur Xuande.
Hauteur : 17 cm. (6. æ in.)

€2,000-3,000 $2,200-3,300
£1,700-2,500

PROVENANCE

Private French collection, acquired in China prior to 1946, and thence
by descent in the family.

A BRONZE ‘DRAGON AND SEA BEASTS’ CENSER AND COVER
CHINA, 17TH CENTURY

十七世紀 銅海獸龍鳳紋蓋爐
來源：法國私人珍藏，於1946年前購於中國，現家族傳承

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