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A FAMILLE VERTE ‘GENERALS OF THE
YANG FAMILY’ CHARGER
Kangxi
Delicately enamelled with a narrative scene
with six female riders in the courtyard of a
large villa, with an official observing from
a balcony, all surrounded with a border
containing the Eight Buddhist Emblems
reserved on a diaper ground. 41.3cm (16
1/4in) diam.
£2,000 - 4,000
CNY18,000 - 37,000
HK$22,000 - 44,000
Provenance 61
Hancock, 37, Bury Street, St. James’s, S.W.1
(label).
The narrative scene on the present lot is taken
from the dramatic work ‘The Generals of the
Yang Family’ written and added to throughout
the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. It depicts
a legendary moment during the Northern
Song Dynasty when, after all the men had
been slaughtered by the Khitan invaders, the
women of the Yang family took up arms and
bravely galloped out to meet the enemy.
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A FINELY ENAMELLED FAMILLE VERTE
BALUSTER VASE
Kangxi
With flaring neck, brightly enamelled with
water fowl amongst densely flowering, leafy
lotus stems, the reverse inscribed with a
poem, the shoulder with four blossom sprays
on a leafy, whorl pattern ground. 18.5cm
(7.1/4in) high.
£700 - 1,000
CNY6,400 - 9,200
HK$7,700 - 11,000
Provenance
Hancock, 37, Bury Street, St. James’s, S.W.1
(label).
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