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A PAIR OF POLYCHROME ENAMELED PORCELAIN PLAQUES A SET OF FOUR FAMILLE-ROSE ENAMELED PLAQUES
Late 19th century Wang Xiaoting （1906-1970）
One depicting a traveling procession through the mountains, the other Each a delicately rendered riverside landscape of elaborate rockery
a leisurely picnic on a river with a distant bridge, rendered in pale and misty shaded long distance perspective all with the small square
polychrome enamels, framed and glazed. red seal reading Xiaoting, each additionally inscribed: the first to read
9 3/4 x 14in (24.8 x 35.6cm) plaques only; overall frame 19 x 25 1/4in Wang Xiaoting xie yu Penpu; the second Xiaoting xie; the third Leping
(48.3 x 64.3cm) [Chuan]fang, Pingshan tang zhuren Xiaoting xie; the last partially
effaced inscription likely reading Wang Xiaoting Xie [yu] Penpu keci; all
$5,000 - 8,000 mounted in sturdy hardwood frames.
9 1/2 x 9 1/2in (24.2 x 24.2cm) visible dimensions of porcelain

$5,000 - 7,000
The son of the well-known Republic era ceramicist Wang Yeting, Wang
Xiaoting remained active through the founding of the People’s Republic
and its early years before dying in the Cultural Revolution. Though a
later artist, the landscapes in the present lot compare favorably with
the finest work of his father (see the landscape offered in our Hong
Kong rooms as lot 128, sale 24017, 30 May 2017) or other giants of
the Republic period (see the set of four landscapes by Tian Hexian
offered in our San Francisco rooms as lot 8180, sale 24262, 27 June
2017).

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