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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF PIERRE CHAPOY AND PAUL LEGENDRE
法國藏家PIERRE CHAPOY 與 PAUL LEGENDRE 先生珍藏
[LOTS 104 - 107]

Yvonne Legendre was 21 when she embarked on the
boat ‘Cap Varella’. She was studying in London when the
Second World War started and her father, Paul Legendre,
Secretary at the Municipal Council in Shanghai, called
her back home. On the boat she met the charming ship’s
doctor, a French man called Pierre Chapoy. They married in
Shanghai soon after they met and stayed there with their
three children until 1949 when they left China. The works
of art that we present today have been collected both by Paul Legendre and his family in Shanghai
Paul Legendre and Pierre Chapoy and stayed by descent in the 1900s.
in the family.

當第二次世界大戰爆發時Yvonne Legendre女士在倫敦唸書，
其父Paul Legendre任職於上海公共租界工部局，當即召喚她回
家。在‘Cap Varella’號船上,21歲的她遇見了年輕的法國隨船醫生
Pierre Chapoy先生。他們很快喜結連理並在上海同三個孩子一
直生活至1949年。以下呈現的藝術品均由Paul Legendre及Pierre
Chapoy先生收藏，傳承至今。
Pierre Chapoy, ship doctor on the Cap
Varella in 1914.

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GRAND VASE EN EMAUX CLOISONNES
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XIXEME SIECLE
La panse est ornée de grues et canards mandarins
sur un étang parsemé de feurs de lotus et d’autres
plantes aquatiques. Le col évasé est agrémenté de
faisans perchés sur des branchages. Le pied est
rehaussé de quatre emblèmes bouddhiques.
Hauteur: 59 cm. (23º in.)
€6,000-8,000 $7,000-9,300
£5,400-7,100
PROVENANCE
Acquired in China prior to 1949 by the French
family who lived in China in the frst half of the 20th
century, thence by descent to the present owner.
A LARGE CLOISONNE ENAMEL ‘LOTUS POND’
VASE
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
清十九世紀 掐絲琺瑯荷塘戲水紋大瓶
來源：法國家族珍藏，1949年前居住上海，於
1949年前購自中國，現後代傳承

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