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A celadon-glazed ‘dragon’ bottle vase
Kangxi
The elegantly potted body with incised five-clawed dragons writhing
amongst clouds and chasing a flaming pearl, all covered in a
pale, transparent qingbai-style glaze, the base with an apocryphal
Chenghua reign mark.
22.5cm (8 7/8in) high
£3,500 - 4,500
CNY34,000 - 43,000 HK$42,000 - 54,000
Provenance
Collection Eugène Fould n.157 (label)
Eugène Fould (1876-1929), later Baron Springer-Fould, was one
of a famous line of French industrialists and bankers. In addition to
Eugène, the family also had a number of prominent Art collectors and
a connection to China in Jacques Fould, an administrator in the French
Railway Company of Indochina and Yunnan (CIY) founded in 1901.
The family lived between the grand Abbey Palace of Royaumont and
a flat on the Avenue d’Iéna in Paris, entertaining contemporaries such
as Marcel Proust and Sacha Guitry. The Fould name has a further
prominence in Parisian society - each iron girder of the Eiffel Tower
carries the stamp ‘Fould-Dupont’ referring to the forge, co-owned by
the Fould dynasty, which produced the building materials.
The contents of The Abbey Palace, including a collection of Asian Art,
were dispersed in a large house sale, Christie’s, Palais Abbatial de
Royaumont, 19 September - 21 September 2011.

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