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609 PROVENANCE:
A RARE PAIR OF FINELY ENAMELLED FAMILLE VERTE ROULEAU
VASES Frank Partridge and Sons, Ltd, 27th March 1947.
Collection of Sir Henry Price (1877-1963); Sotheby’s London,
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) 22 November 2000, lot 311.
The James E. Sowell Collection, Dallas, Texas.
Each vase is fnely decorated with two registers of shaped panels
The vivid enamels and fne painting are very similar to those on a vase also
depicting auspicious animals including crane, deer, tigers, phoenix dated to the Kangxi period in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 38 - Porcelains in
and rabbits, and circular panels of fowers growing amidst rocks in the Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 81, no. 74.
lower register, all reserved against a green ground painted with fower 清康熙 五彩開光瑞獸圖棒槌瓶一對
heads and butterfies in fight.
18 ¿ in. (46 cm.) high (2)
$60,000-80,000
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