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A PAIR OF FINE FAMILLE VERTE OVIFORM JARS A FAMILLE VERTE BALUSTER VASE
Kangxi Kangxi
Each skilfully enamelled with a terraced garden with a peony tree, Painted to each side with baskets of composite floral arrangements
bamboo issuing from rockwork, birds in flight and butterflies, with a beneath a collar of ruyi and foliate form lappets to the shoulder;
charming scene of a cat observing a bird on a red perch hanging from together with a famille verte oviform vase and cover painted with
a branch, a ruyi head border at the shoulder, hard wood covers and panels of blossoming prunus trees.
stands. Each: 22cm (8 5/8in) high (6). 21cm (8.1/4in) and 20.5cm (8.1/8in) high. (3).
£2,000 - 3,000 £800 - 1,200
CNY18,000 - 28,000 CNY7,300 - 11,000
HK$22,000 - 33,000 HK$8,800 - 13,000
Provenance
The oviform vase: Hancock, 37 Bury Street, St. James’s, London,
S.W.1 (label).
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