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A PART-SET OF OCTAGONAL FAMILLE
VERTE DISHES
Kangxi
Each dish with a moulded ‘pie-crust’ rim, the
well enamelled in a palette of green, yellow,
aubergine, black, blue, iron-red and gilt with
a court lady playing a zither on a table in a
terraced garden, with a scholar and hidden
attendant observing the scene, surrounded
at the rim with four cartouches enclosing fish
and butterflies, reserved on a floral ground.
The largest: 35cm (13 3/4in) diam. (7).

£5,000 - 8,000
HK$51,000 - 82,000
CNY45,000 - 72,000

Provenance
B. de Lavergne, Paris (labels)
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A FAMILLE VERTE ‘DAOIST IMMORTALS’
DISH
Longqing six-character mark, Kangxi
Finely enamelled with two of The Eight Daoist
Immortals under a pine tree in a pastoral
landscape, with Lan Caihe reclining on a
spotted deer and playing a flute, and Zhang
Guolao with his ‘fish drum’, the flat rim with
four quatre-lobed cartouches enclosing the
emblems of the Four Arts, reserved on a
diaper ground with peony flowers. 38cm
(15in) diam.

£3,000 - 5,000 82
HK$31,000 - 51,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000

Provenance
The Nathan Bentz collection, Santa Barbara,
California (label)

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. ASIAN ART - PART I | 35