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A rare European-style soft paste baluster vase
Jiaqing
The vase raised on an octagonal foot, finely decorated with floral
sprays and puce diaper bands, the shoulders flanked with purple
dragon handles in high relief; together with a famille-rose ‘Mandarin
Pattern’ baluster vase, with a gilt ground; an unusual enamelled
baluster vase with iron-red landscape scenes and an American eagle.
The largest: 23.5cm (9 1/4in) high (3).

£1,000 - 1,500 50
CNY9,500 - 14,000
HK$12,000 - 18,000

For a comparable baluster vase with applied dragons dated c.1800
see D.S. Howard, Choice of the Private Trader, Philip Wilson
Publishers Ltd. 1994, p. 244, no. 290. The author notes that the shape
undoubtedly derives from a French or Italian original and that the
design of the dragons are from the European imagination rather than
the Chinese.

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A famille rose ‘hunting scene’ punch bowl
Qianlong
Decorated with shaped panels of European gentlemen on horseback,
surrounded by packs of hounds, before and during the chase,
alternating with smaller panels of Chinese figures in riverside gardens,
the interior with a further hunting scene roundel.
29.2cm (11.1/2in) diam.

£500 - 700 HK$5,900 - 8,300
CNY4,700 - 6,600

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A rare rouge-de-fer shell-shaped cup and stand
Qianlong
The shell-shaped cup-stand raised on a spreading footrim, enamelled
to each lobe in iron-red and gilt with floral sprigs, a spear-head and
diaper band encircling the well, the reticulated foliate circular cup
support with floral motifs, the matching ogee cup similarly decorated.
22cm (8 5/8in) wide (2).

£500 - 800 HK$5,900 - 9,500
CNY4,700 - 7,600

For a similar example in famille rose see Christie’s South Kensington
22/01/13, lot 350.

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