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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION PROVENANCE
A LARGE FAMILLE-VERTE ‘ROMANCE OF THE A PAIR OF LARGE FAMILLE-VERTE ‘FLOWER Mallett Antiques, London.
THREE KINGDOMS’ DISH AND ANIMAL’ SLENDER BALUSTER VASES
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD $ 40,000-60,000
richly painted with a scene from the historic drama Sanguo each sturdily potted, the tall sides gently rising to a rounded
yanyi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), possibly depicting shoulder, subtly waisted neck, and galleried rim, the body 清康熙 五彩開光花鳥瑞獸紋大瓶一對
the Han alchemist Zuo Ci brandishing a sword issuing finely painted with three registers of petal-form panels, each
vapor and a crane at the elaborately dressed warlord Cao panel with double-line borders alternately enclosing animals 來源
Cao, who gestures cautiously towards his adversary and a in landscapes, birds and flowers, or flora of various seasons, Mallett Antiques，倫敦
blue-robed scholar who darts behind, a female attendant the neck encircled by a composite floral scroll borne on a
nearby pointing a hanging lantern at the crane and another leafy stem, the mouth rim with a thin band of ‘prunus and
attendant standing at the other side of the bird, the cracked ice’ in polychrome enamels, the base with a double
adjacent halls each with two ladies in elegantly appointed circle in underglaze blue, gilt stands (4)
surroundings oblivious to the commotion, all framed by a Height 22⅛ in., 56.3 cm
band of ‘precious objects’ on a diaper ground, the channeled
base with a beribboned artemisia leaf in underglaze blue
within a double circle
Diameter 15¼ in., 38.7 cm
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, 22nd March 2002, lot 110.
The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York.

$ 20,000-30,000

清康熙 五彩三國人物故事圖大盤
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來源
紐約蘇富比2002年3月22日，編號110
The Chinese Porcelain Company，紐約

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AN IRON-RED-GROUND AND FAMILLE-VERTE
‘BIRD AND FLOWER’ YENYEN VASE
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
the baluster body sweeping to a wide trumpet neck with
a flaring rim, the body brilliantly enameled with a pair of
elegant phoenixes soaring amidst a continuous peony
scroll, the thin looping stems issuing large stylized blooms
and leaves in varying forms, the larger leaves picked out
in emerald-green, all against a vibrant iron-red ground,
the shoulder with a band of keyfret and a ruyi collar, and a
further pendent ruyi-head band at the mouth, the base with a
double circle in underglaze blue
Height 18⅜ in., 46.7 cm
PROVENANCE
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

$ 4,000-6,000

清康熙 五彩穿花鳳紋鳳尾尊

來源
Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約

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