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A pair of famille rose rouleau vases A porcelain inset table screen
Enamelled in mirror image with a garden scene of gathered scholars Signed Bi Yuanming, dated by inscription to 1951
playing weiqi amongst pine and rockwork. The circular plaque finely enamelled with a recumbent water buffalo in
Each 45cm (17 3/4in) high (2). a pasture, with tall mountains and trees in the background, a cursive
inscription to the top left, signed by the artist, with the cyclical year xin
£500 - 1,000 HK$5,900 - 12,000 mao, one red seal, the plaque mounted in a carved hardwood table
CNY4,700 - 9,500 screen.
The plaque: 19cm (7 1/2in) diam. (2).

392 £800 - 1,200 HK$9,500 - 14,000
A famille rose dish CNY7,600 - 11,000
Republic Period
Decorated with a scene of scholars gathered around a table in 394
a garden, beneath lanterns suspended from the branches of a An enamelled porcelain plaque table screen
blossoming tree, a boy seated to one side, fanning a stove, apocryphal The rectangular plaque enamelled with a misty mountain landscape
blue enamel Qianlong four-character mark. with fishermen trawling a river and birds in flight over thatched houses,
37cm (14.5/8in) diam. mounted in a reticulated hardwood table screen frame, inscribed Wang
Yeting, with a cyclical date dingchou, one red seal.
£500 - 700 HK$5,900 - 8,300 The plaque: 28cm (11in) x 42.5cm (16 3/4in) (2).
CNY4,700 - 6,600

£500 - 1,000 HK$5,900 - 12,000
CNY4,700 - 9,500

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