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VASE EN PORCELAINE DE
LA FAMILLE ROSE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE A SIX
CARACTERES EN CACHET EN ROUGE DE
FER ET EPOQUE DAOGUANG (1821-1850)
Reposant sur un petit pied droit, il est délicatement
peint d’un couple de pies perchées sur des
branchages de magnolia parmi des pivoines et des
marguerites ; restauration au col.
Hauteur: 31 cm. (12º)
€10,000-15,000 $12,000-17,000
£8,900-13,000
PROVENANCE
Previously in an American private collection.
The two magpies, ‘shuangxi’, symbolize ‘double-
happiness’, as the character of the word for magpie,
xi, is the homonym for happiness. See a famille
rose jardiniere with very similarly painted magpies
bearing a Shendetang zhi mark, Zhao Congyue ed.,
Porcelains with Inscription of Shendetang Collected
by the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2014, pl. 71.
A FAMILLE ROSE ‘MAGPIE AND MAGNOLIA’
VASE
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, DAOGUANG SIX-
CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND
OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
清道光 粉彩喜報春來瓶 礬紅六字篆書款
來源：美國私人舊藏
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