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TWO LARGE FAMILLE-ROSE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE DUTCH COLLECTION
‘CHRYSANTHEMUM’ DISHES A PAIR OF FAMILLE-ROSE ‘MILLE-FLEURS’
LATE QING DYNASTY ‘LANDSCAPE’ VASES
each finely and brightly enamelled to the exterior with REPUBLICAN PERIOD
blossoming and leafy chrysanthemum branches issuing from
the foot, with butterflies flying above, the flower heads painted each exquisitely painted in oval panels with figures and
in iron-red and pink and yellow, the leaves rendered in two pavilions amongst an idyllic landscape, all against a colourful
tones of green, the base with an apocryphal Yongzheng six- array of flowers blooming against a ground of dense foliage
character mark below a gilt rim, with an inscription reading Chen Donggao
(2) (Minister Dongao) and a seal mark reading Gao, the interior
51.5 cm, 20¼ in. and base glazed turquoise, the base with an apocryphal
Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue, wood box, wood stands
‡ £ 8,000-12,000 (5)
HK$ 82,500-124,000 US$ 10,600-15,800 22.5 cm, 8⅞ in.
清末 粉彩蝶戀花紋大盤一組兩件 PROVENANCE
Collection of Colonel B. A. Van Gulik (d. 1964), brother of Robert
Van Gulik, in service at the Embassy of the Netherlands in
Nanjing, acquired in China before the 1940s, thence by descent.
£ 10,000-15,000
HK$ 104,000-155,000 US$ 13,200-19,700
民國 粉彩萬花錦地山水圖燈籠尊一對

來源: 陸軍上校高備儺（？-1964年）收藏，荷蘭著名漢學家髙羅佩之弟，
南京荷蘭駐華大使館武官，購於1940年代以前， 自此家族珍藏

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