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三 32. Famille verte bottle vase with globular body and tall slender cylindrical neck and lipped rim, painted with four large
十 ruyi-head panels enclosing open-winged butterflies amongst prunus, peony, lotus, pinks, chrysanthemum and aster and
二 four smaller ruyi-head panels of chrysanthemum flowerheads, all on a seed-green ground, suspending panels of magpie

and lotus, horse and rockwork, magpie, prunus and sage in a mountainous landscape, all on a geometric iron-red
五 cross-hatch ground, between further hanging ornaments of double fish, cash and music stone, the shoulder with bands
彩 of ruyi-head, keyfret and lotus petals, the neck with branches of lotus in blue and iron-red, beneath further precious
燈 objects, pendant from a keyfret band at the rim.
籠 41.8cm high.
花 Kangxi, 1662-1722.
蝶 Wood stand.
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長 • Formerly in an English private collection.
頸 • Two similar related bottle vases are illustrated by Gorer in their catalogue of The Collection of Old Chinese Porcelains
瓶 formed by Richard Bennett, Esq., Thornby Hall, Northampton, no. 214 and 216; a further related example is illustrated

by R. L. Hobson, C. B., in Catalogue of the Leonard Gow Collection of Chinese Porcelain, 1931, pl. XXVI.
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