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6303
AN ASSEMBLED GROUP OF
TURQUOISE GROUND PLANTERS AND
STANDS PAINTED IN FAMILLE ROSE
ENAMELS
Late Qing/Republic period
Each planter of inverted bell with a drainage
hole centering the recessed base and
similar border bands on the flared rim and
body: one planter painted with peonies,
flowering branches and garden rocks on
a pale blue ground while the other planter
adds roosters, bamboo and coxcomb and
to the garden rocks and peonies in bloom
to a ground of darker turquoise hue; the two
cushion-shaped stands painted to match the
turquoise ground, roosters and vegetation
of the second planter (wear and soiling from
use, stands retouched). [4]
21 1/4in (54cm) diameter of planters
29 1/2in (75cm) height of planter and stand
$4,000 - 6,000

The decorative program on this lot includes
a number of visual puns. Combining a
6303 rooster (gongji) with peonies (fuguihua)
represents the sentiment gongming fugui -
may you receive official rank and honor. A
rooster (gongji) and cockscomb (jiguanhua)
are a visual pun for the similar sentiment
guanshang jiaguan - may you continuously
rise in rank. Finally a large rooster (da gongji)
perched on a rock (shi) also becomes a visual
metaphor for shishang daji - good fortune
in the home. See Terese Tse Bartholomew,
Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art, San
Francisco, 2006, p. 106, no.5.4.3; and pp.
126-127, nos. 5.31.1, 5.31.3 and 5.31.4.

6303A
TWO POLYCHROME ENAMELED
FISHBOWL PLANTERS
Late Qing/Republic period
The first painted with a powder blue ground
surrounding large shaped reserves of flowers
and birds separated by smaller panels of
landscapes and precious objects rendered in
famille verte enamels, the recessed base and
the foot unglazed (star crack through walls);
the second covered in a heavily crazed glaze
6303A of straw color with iron-washed borders
above and below a continuous martial scene
painted in famille rose enamels, the foot pad
and recessed base unglazed (hairline crack).
14 1/8 and 14 3/4in (36 and 37.5cm)
diameters
$1,000 - 1,500

6304
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE EXPORT
PORCELAIN BOWLS WITH FIGURAL
DECORATION
Circa 1800
Each painted with an iron red and gilt
trifid band along the interior surface of the
thick walls, the exterior divided into two
large reserves of elegantly dressed ladies
and gentlemen wearing Manchu official
hats separated by smaller frame around a
standing beauty and a seated fisherman.
11 3/4in (28cm) diameter
6304
$2,500 - 3,500
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