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1478 A ENAMELED TURQUOISE GLASS ‘CRANE’
1479 MALLET VASE
QING DYNASTY, THE VASE 19TH CENTURY,
198 SOTHEBY’S THE ENAMELS LATER ADDED

the cylindrical neck rising from a bell-shaped body, the neck
painted in polychrome enamels with six red bats soaring amid
clouds between an upper keyfret border and a lower band of
ruyi heads, the body with six cranes roaming a continuous
landscape of pines and colorful plants, the base inscribed with
an apocryphal four-character Qianlong mark within a square
Height 5¼ in., 13.3 cm

PROVENANCE
Acquired by a United States admiral while stationed in the Far
East during World War II.

$ 2,000-3,000

㶭⋩ḅᶾ䲨ġġġ⼴≈⼑㜦䞛䵈㕁㜦浜⺞⸜⚾㎾懜⮲
˪Ḧ昮⸜墥˫ầ㫦

1478

A FAMILLE-ROSE ‘PHEASANT AND PEONY’
RETICULATED DISH
QING DYNASTY

brightly enameled to the interior with a male pheasant standing
on top of pierced rockwork, gazing towards its mate perching
under a magnolia tree, all surrounded by leafy branches of
lush peony, the rounded cavetto delicately pierced with foliate
scrollwork enclosing the ‘Eight Auspicious Emblems’ below
a painted band of lotus scrolls and a gilt rim, the base with an
apocryphal Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue
Diameter 11¼ in., 28.7 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Janet Lea Porteous McDougall (1919-2011),
Quebec, Canada.

$ 3,000-5,000

㶭ġġġ䰱⼑拎➪⭴屜⚾掌䨢ℓ⎱䤍䲳䚌
˪⣏㶭Ḧ昮⸜墥˫ầ㫦

1479

A PAIR OF FAMILLE-ROSE ‘IMMORTAL’
CUPS
REPUBLIC PERIOD

each with shallow rounded sides and an everted rim, nely
painted around the exterior with an immortal releasing a crane
amid an auspicious land of rocky outcrops, lingzhi, a pine tree,
and a pair of bats, the base with an apocryphal six-character
Yongzheng mark in underglaze blue within a double-ring (2)
Diameter 2¾ in., 7 cm

PROVENANCE
Acquired by a United States admiral while stationed in the Far
East during World War II.

$ 2,000-3,000

㮹⚳ġġġ䰱⼑㜦㜿䍑浜⚾䙫ᶨ⮵
˪⣏㶭晵㬋⸜墥˫ầ㫦