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A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE BEAKER
VASES
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Each enameled with court ladies in a courtyard
and along the walls of a palace with pennants
fying, formal borders above and below
13¼ in. (33.6 cm.) high (2)
$15,000-25,000
PROVENANCE:
With Santos, London.
LITERATURE:
William R. Sargent, Chinese Porcelain in the Conde
Collection, Madrid, 2014, p. 284, no. 116.
This rare decoration, with its somewhat European
battlements and domed towers, is known in a
small number of large-scale famille verte and
blue and white pieces from the Kangxi period.
Compare a pair of blue and white jars and covers
sold Christie's London, 7 April 1997, and a single
in the RA Collection, op. cit., p. 279.

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A FAMILLE VERTE OVOID JAR AND
COVER
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Decorated with colorful foral roundels between
wide red-ground bands of lotus scroll, the rounded
cover centered by a large iron-red fower-head
7¾ in. (19.8 cm.) high (2)
$2,500-4,000
PROVENANCE:
With Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
The Anna Thompson Dodge Collection, Rose
Terrace, Michigan.

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