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A RARE FAMILLE VERTE ‘MADAME DE
MAINTENON’ FIGURE
Kangxi
The standing figure of Louis XIV’s mistress
dressed in long tunics with colourful patterns,
with a shawl atop the elaborately curled wig,
with a benign expression across the smiling
face, the hands modelled slightly raised.
24cm (9 3/8in) high

£2,000 - 3,000
CNY17,000 - 26,000 HK$20,000 - 30,000

For a very similar figure, dated to the early
18th century, see the Victoria & Albert
Museum collection, no. A-1963. Also
compare with a figure, Kangxi, held with
Marchant and Son ltd. illustrated in the
exhibition catalogue 90th Anniversary
Exhibition of Chinese Export Porcelain, 7-22
May 2015, p. 4, no. 1.

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A WUCAI ‘DRAGON’ BOWL DAOGUANG
SEAL MARK AND POSSIBLY OF THE
PERIOD
Daoguang seal mark and possibly of the
period
The exterior enamelled with two writhing
five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls
and two swooping phoenix, all between floral
sprays, below a border of the Eight Buddhist
Emblems and ruyi-head motifs, raised on a
short foot rim.
15.2cm (6in) diam.

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY26,000 - 43,000 HK$30,000 - 50,000

For a similar bowl see He Li, Chinese
Ceramics, A new standard Guide, The Asian
Art Museum of San Francisco, 1996, pl. 651.

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