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A powder blue and gilt yenyen vase
Kangxi
Elaborately gilt on a mottled cobalt-blue ground with
four oblong panels, the trumpet neck on one side
with a magpie perching on a branch of flowering
prunus and the other with drooping chrysanthemum
blossoms, the body panels with luxuriant peony
and lotus sprays with butterflies hovering above,
divided by four leaf-shaped cartouches of fish and
butterflies, all reserved on a gilt ground of scrolling
flowers.
45.7cm (18in) high

£5,000 - 8,000 CNY50,000 - 79,000
HK$63,000 - 100,000

清康熙 灑藍地描金花鳥圖鳳尾尊

Provenance 來源: R. & G. McPherson Ltd., London
(label)

Roy Davids Collection, no.68, acquired on

1 December 2006

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A powder-blue and gilt cylindrical
brushpot, bitong
Kangxi
The exterior depicting in gilt the poet Su Shi and
companions in a covered raft in a moonlit river
scene amidst a high cliff and pine trees, the reverse
inscribed with the poet’s ‘Ode to the Red Cliff’
written in kaishu, wood stand.
19cm (7 1/2in) diam. (2).

£1,000 - 1,500 CNY9,900 - 15,000
HK$13,000 - 19,000

清康熙 灑藍地描金東坡赤壁賦筆筒

Provenance 來源: Woolley and Wallis,
15 July 2006, lot 432

Roy Davids Collection, no.75

A similar powder blue and gilt brushpot, also with a
scene of ‘The Ode to the Red Cliff’ is illustrated by
E.Ströber, La Maladie de Porcelaine, Leipzig, 2001,
no.44.

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