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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE OREGON COLLECTOR
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A GROUP OF SIX ENAMELED PORCELAINS
Late Qing/Republic period
The first an export famille rose water bottle with a fitted lid from a
toilet set, painted figural reserves in a gilt dragon frame surrounded by
colorful flowering and leafy branches, butterflies, and scholars’ objects
(surface wear); the second a millefleur-decorated circular lidded box,
the recessed base bearing a Qianlong six-character mark in seal
script; the third and fourth similarly decorated in famille rose enamels
with densely painted flowers and leafy scrolls, one an egg-shell
porcelain baluster vase (hairline crack), the other a plate, both bearing
Qianlong marks to the undersides; and two rectangular lidded boxes,
one painted in famille verte enamels with flowers and birds on the side
walls and figures in a courtyard across the lid (lid and box possibly
married), the other enameled with figural reserves against a flower-and-
butterfly ground in the Rose Medallion export pattern (wear to enamels
and gilt paint).
18 1/2in (47cm) height of water bottle including lid

US$1,000 - 1,500

5139 PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED TWO-SECTIONED A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED CHARGER
VASES Yongzheng mark
Republic period Painted in the export style with a hobnail pattern outlined in puce
Each of archaistic gu-shape and square section, the flared neck enamel as the background in shaped reserves of flowers and leaves
separately molded from the faceted body raised on a conforming rendered in opaque enamels along the canted rim, the curving well
flared foot, the pale celadon glazed ground intricately painted with similarly painted with birds, tree peonies and a garden rock, the
a composite lotus flower and leaf scroll design combined with shou exterior walls with floral sprays and the recessed base bearing the
characters and pairs of fish hanging from tasseled ribbons, both six-character mark in underglaze blue standard script inscribed within
sections also centered with circular apertures through the bases (one a double ring.
vase with losses, second vase retouched). 19 3/8in (49.2cm) diameter
19 1/4in (49cm) high
US$1,500 - 2,500
US$1,500 - 2,500
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JESSE MILES LEWIS
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JESSE MILES LEWIS
5143
5140 A GROUP OF THREE SMALL FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED
A GROUP OF SEVEN CONTAINERS WITH FAMILLE ROSE CONTAINERS
FLOWER AND BIRD DECORATION Tongzhi marks, late Qing/Republic period
Late Qing/Republic period The largest a rectangular shallow bowl with indented corners, painted
The largest a rectangular planter (hairline crack, chips); the second on the outside with alternating male and female figures, a layer of
an oval footed bowl with quatrelobed walls (hairline crack); the third a turquoise enamel applied on the interior well and the recessed base
shallow stem bowl with fluted rim; a pair of cachepots and underdishes bearing a six-character mark in iron red seal script; and a pair of
with piecrust rims, each bearing a Qianlong yuzhi mark in iron red miniature quatrelobed cups painted in gilt and iron red with a band of
standard script (one cachepot and underdish damaged); the sixth a bats above auspicious seal script characters on the outside, turquoise
dinner plate bearing a four-character Daoguang mark in iron red seal enamel applied on the interior well and the recessed base bearing
script; the seventh a square quatrefoil dish with scalloped rim bearing the six-character mark in iron red seal script (one cup repaired and
a four-character Tongzhi mark stamped in iron red. retouched).
13 1/2in (34.3cm) length of rectangular planter 5 x 5 1/4in (12.7 x 13.4cm) the bowl
6in (15.2cm) height of cachepot and underdish 2 x 2in (5 x 5cm) the cups

US$1,000 - 1,500 US$800 - 1,200

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