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十 19. A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte cake stands, tazze, each painted on the saucer-shaped top with a basket of peony beside two

九 stacks of books encircled by precious objects including scrolls and ruyi-sceptres, each tied with ribbons, beneath a flowerhead-band

at the rim, the underside with three branches of prunus sprays in iron-red, all on a stem foot with a lotus petal, keyfret and jewelled
康 band.
熙
五 8 ¾ inches, 22.2 cm diameter.
彩 Kangxi, 1662-1722.

花
卉 • Formerly in a West Dorset private collection.
紋 • A Kangxi blue and white tazza painted with ladies, from the collection of The Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden, is

托 illustrated by David S. Howard in A Tale of Three Cities, Canton, Shanghai and Hong Kong, no. 73, p. 70.

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