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A fine and rare famille verte baluster vase Collection, 1970, Catalogue no.103
Kangxi Hong Kong Museum of Art, Ming and Ch’ing Porcelain from the
The sides rising up to high shoulders and galleried rim, the body finely Collection of the T.Y.Chao Family Foundation, 1978, Catalogue no.68
enamelled with a continuous scene of elegant court ladies engaged in Previously on loan to the Denver Museum of Art from 1995 to 2005
various activities, including painting and playing weiqi, a table holding S.Marchant and Son, Recent Acquisitions, 2006, no.31
antiquities in the background, the slightly waisted neck with two floral
sprays of chrysanthemum and peony beneath a key-fret border along Illustrated 著錄: R.Davids and D.Jellinek, Provenance, London, 2011,
the rim, fitted box. front cover
42.8cm (16 7/8in) high (2).

£80,000 - 110,000 Martin Erdman (d.1937) was a banker in New York, with such an
HK$1,000,000 - 1,400,000 CNY790,000 - 1,100,000 extensive art collection that he purchased two lots on East 55th Street
to erect a single five-storey house to display it; the property is now
清康熙 五彩仕女圖瓶 occupied by the Friars Club. When Christie’s sold many of his works
of art in London in 1937, 129 lots of Chinese porcelain dominated the
Provenance 來源: first day of sales including the present lot.
The Collection of Martin Erdman, New York
Christie’s London, 18 November 1937, lot 45 Captain Vivian Bulkeley-Johnson (d.1968) served in the Rifle Brigade
Mallet & Sons, London in 1917, and later became a director of Rothschilds. He started to
The Collection of Captain Vivian Bulkeley-Johnson, who formed collect Chinese porcelain and works of art around 1951, particularly
The Mount Trust Collection from Sparks, London, although it is possible that the present lot was
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, The T.Y.Chao Private and Family Trust purchased earlier directly from Mallets, London.
Collections of Important Chinese Ceramics and Jade Carvings:
Part One, 18 November 1986, lot 123
An American private collection
S.Marchant and Son Ltd., London (label)
Roy Davids Collection, no.115, acquired on 6 April 2011

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