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PROPERTY FROM THE JAMES K. LI COLLECTION

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE MINIATURE VASES

REPUBLIC PERIOD
Each delicate eggshell porcelain vase is decorated with doves variously
feeding and fying amidst orchid and aster, and one vase also has a bird
perching on bamboo shafts, between blue-enameled borders on the foot and
the rim. The reverse of each vase has the same poetic inscription and seals and
the bases have blue-enameled apocryphal Qianlong marks.
32 in. (8.1 cm.) high, two tiered cloth stands and a glass-fronted presentation
cloth box
$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE

Collection of Ambassador Ti-Tsun Li (1901-1981) and thence by descent to the
present owner.
The inscriptions on the vases are an apocryphal gu yue xuan poem, reading:
hua chen fang zong ri, bo xi gu ren shu (when the fowers are blooming in the
spring, using silk to wrap old friends’ letters) and the seals read jia and li.
民國 袖珍粉彩花鳥圖瓶一對

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