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VERTE ‘BUTTERFLY’
ROULEAU VASE

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period ҳ⎽
Alberto Varela Santos⧍侚2002䎃
the cylindrical body surmounted by a
constricted neck and everted rim, the
body brightly enameled with the ‘hundred
butter! ies’, the insects of varied sizes and
colors ! itting elegantly over the surface
beneath a narrow ruyi-head band, the shoulder
with intermingled prunus blooms and bamboo
shoots, the neck with a single narcissus issuing
delicate blooms amid elongated painterly
leaves, coll. no. 1348.
Height 7¾ in., 19.7 cm
PROVENANCE
Alberto Varela Santos, London, 2002.
$ 5,000-7,000

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