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A PAIR OF RARE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE EROTIC SUBJECT
SQUARE-SECTION VASES, FANGGU
KANGXI 1662-1722
Each vase painted with scenes from The Romance of the Western Chamber
to the central section, the tall flaring necks and feet decorated with flowers,
rocks and butterflies, with geometric bands of fylfots encircling the mouths
and footrims, each painted with a couple engaged in amorous pursuits to the
base, 26cm. (2)
£8,000-12,000
Provenance: from a British private collection, purchased from D & M Freedman on
16th May 2012. A copy of the invoice is available.
Cf. M Beurdeley and G Raindre, Qing Porcelain, p.67, nos.69 and 70 for a pair of
related vases also with couples in coitus to the bases; see also S Marchant & Son,
Exhibition of Two Hundred Years of Chinese Porcelain 1522-1722, 1998, p.82,
no.65 for another similar pair.
清康熙 青花春宮圖方觚 一對
來源：英國私人收藏，2012年5月16日購於D & M Freedman（附發票
複印件）。

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