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A PAIR OF POLYCHROME ENAMELED TWO-HANDLED VASES AN ASSEMBLED FAMILLE ROSE PARTIAL DINNER SERVICE
Jiaqing marks, 20th century Jiaqing and Daoguang marks, late Qing/Republic period
The loop-shaped handles on the waisted neck painted in iron red Painted in bright enamels with auspicious emblems and ribbon tied
and gilt against a yellow ground with famille rose enamels tinting the antique vases across each face and including: eleven deep dishes
composite lotus flower sprays and cloud collar edging above mirror reversed with three flower head and leaf sprays painted en suite, the
images of Shoulao, the Hehe Twins and the Eight Immortals on the recessed bases bearing a six-character Jiaqing mark surrounded by
ovoid walls, the turquoise enamel within the neck repeated on the turquoise enamel; eight large service plates with everted rims, the
recessed base surrounding a reserve bearing the six-character mark undersides without decoration, but the recessed bases also bearing
in iron red seal script. a six-character Jiaqing mark surrounded by turquoise enamel; the
14 3/8in (36.5cm) high last a charger with three clumps of bamboo painted in iron red to
the underside, the recessed base bearing a six-character Daoguang
$3,000 - 5,000 mark in iron red surrounded by turquoise enamel. [20]
9 1/2, 11 1/2 and 14 3/4in (24, 29 and 37.5cm) diameters
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TWO WUCAI-DECORATED PORCELAINS $1,000 - 1,500
Late Qing/Republic period
Both decorated in underglaze blue and polychrome enamels: the Due to the large number of items in this lot, condition reports and
larger an ovoid jar with rolled rim and cylindrical neck, displaying photographs of individual items in the lot will not be available.
female immortals carrying fly whisks or lingzhi fungus branches as
they stand within a continuous garden setting, the slightly concave PROPERTY FROM A SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
base left unglazed; the smaller a garlic-headed baluster vase with
leafy bamboo stalks above an imperial audience scene taking 6319
place within a garden, the recessed base bearing a six-character
Chenghua mark in underglaze blue (chipped). TWO ENAMELED PORCELAIN VASES
Late Qing/Republic period
12 1/4 and 11 1/4in (30.5 and 28.5cm) high The first a meiping with copper red ground painted in opaque famille
rose enamels with a bird, butterflies and peony branches below a
$1,000 - 1,500 cloud collar band on the shoulder, a white crackled glaze visible on
the interior neck and recessed base within the wide, unglazed foot
6317 pad; the second of elongated baluster form, painted with a band
A POLYCHROME ENAMELED FIGURE OF JI GONG of dragons above a continuous martial audience scene rendered
Kong Xiang ji zao mark, Republic period in famille verte enamels on a pale lavender enamel ground, the
The ‘mad monk’ depicted holding a peach in his joined hands as he recessed base bearing a six-character Chenghua mark in black
sits dressed in a distinctive cap and tattered garments with a palm enamel standard script (repaired and retouched).
leaf fan stuck behind his right ear, the base stamped with the four- 14 3/8 and 16 5/8in (3.5 and 42.3cm) high
character mark in a single row of standard script (chipped).
6 1/4in (16cm) high $600 - 800

$1,000 - 1,500 PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
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A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED GARDEN SEAT
Late Qing/Republic period
Of circular drum shape with cash-patterned openings cut to the top
and sides and outlined in pale rose enamel, the curving walls applied
with raised circular bosses above and below opposing reserves of
pheasants posed amid flowering branches on a garden rock and
reversed by a group of auspicious antiques executed in brightly hued
enamels (minor wear and flaking to enamels).
18in (45.8cm) high
$600 - 800

Provenance
by repute, purchased in Shanghai in the 1920s by George Coleman
of New York; then, by descent, to his grandson

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