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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
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A PAIR OF UNUSUAL FAMILLE ROSE CIRCULAR BOXES AND COVERS
HONGXIAN PERIOD (1915-1916)
The boxes are decorated in mirror image with a parrot perched on a bamboo stalk
growing beside a chrysanthemum stem bearing yellow, pink and blue blossoms.
The sides of the cover and box are covered in a peach-colored glaze decorated
with gilt foliate medallions, and with gilt key-fret bands at the rims. The bases
are inscribed with four-character fushou ruyi marks in iron-red within a double
square.
9º in. (23.5 cm.) diam. (2)
$15,000-25,000
PROVENANCE:
Private collection of a Philadelphia Family; Christie’s New York, 1-2 December
1994, lot 458.
The four-character mark, fushou ruyi, expresses the wish for good fortune and long life.
洪憲 桃色地粉彩描金開光花鳥圖圓蓋盒一對 (another view)
(mark)
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