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十 17. A Chinese porcelain famille verte biscuit chicken ewer and cover on an oval flat base, moulded with a pair of green chicks at its sides
七 and an aubergine chick seated on the lotus leaf cover, the glaze of luminous tone.
6 inches, 15.2 cm tip of spout to handle.
素 Kangxi, 1662-1722.
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彩 • Formerly in the collection of the Dewar family, Perthshire, Scotland.
雞 • A similar pair, from the Copeland collection, is illustrated by William R. Sargent in Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics from the
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壺 Peabody Essex Museum, no. 245, p. 448; a further example is illustrated by Anthony du Boulay in Chinese Porcelain, Pleasures and
Treasures, no. 64, p. 72, and two similar pairs are illustrated by Gallerie Georges Petit in the auction catalogue of Céramique de la
清 Chine, les Biscuits Verts, collection de M.F. Allard, 1st April 1925, nos. 375 & 389.
康 • The rooster, gongji, is a symbol for high rank, for its comb, jiguan, is a pun for official, guan.
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