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A PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE SQUARE
BALUSTER VASES
Kangxi
Each vase finely enamelled to the facets with
scenes of ladies in terraced gardens and
arrangements of birds and flowers, the flaring
neck with foliate cartouches reserved on floral
diaper.
Each: 47.5cm (18 3/4in) high (2).
£5,000 - 7,000
CNY44,000 - 62,000
HK$55,000 - 77,000
Provenance
Collection of Christopher Thomasson of
Somerton Castle, Lincolnshire.

For a comparable pair of vases see Von
Walter Bondy, Kan-hsi, 1925, p. 144; and
another near identical pair R.L. Hobson, The
Catalogue of the Leonard Gow Collection of
Chinese Porcelain, pl. XXVII.

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A FAMILLE VERTE SWEETMEAT DISH
Kangxi
With central circular compartment surrounded
by four shaped compartments, decorated
with butterflies and insects amongst flowers
and foliage issuing from rockwork. 24cm
85 (9.1/2in) diam.
£1,500 - 2,000
CNY13,000 - 18,000
HK$16,000 - 22,000
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A LARGE FAMILLE NOIRE BALUSTER
VASE, YENYEN
Kangxi six-character mark, 19th Century
The baluster body and tall straight neck finely
enamelled with short tailed birds swooping
and perched amongst prunus branches, all on
a black ground. 71cm (28in) high

£600 - 1,000
CNY5,300 - 8,800
HK$6,600 - 11,000

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