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A famille verte rouleau vase
Kangxi
Vividly decorated in enamels of bright tone with
a pair of confronted birds flying above blooming
chrysanthemum borne on undulating leafy stems,
with a cricket and a praying mantis perching on
leaves below butterflies in flight, all between a border
of petal lappets below and bands of ruyi heads, key-
fret and upright leaves above.
46.5cm (18 1/4in) high
£5,000 - 8,000
HK$63,000 - 100,000 CNY50,000 - 79,000
清康熙 五彩花鳥紋棒槌瓶
Provenance 來源: the Hon. Mrs Nellie Ionides
Collection, Buxted Park, Sussex
Sotheby’s London, 9 November 2011, lot 506
S.Marchant and Son Ltd., London
Roy Davids Collection, no.126, acquired on
16 November 2011
The liveliness and delicacy of the enamlled birds on
the present lot is particularly fine. A vase with related
elegant decoration of birds is illustrated in Selected
Porcelain of the Flourishing Qing Dynasty at the
Palace Museum, Beijing, 1994, no.24.

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