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A CATALOGUE OF
No. 24
Pair of Cylindrical Vases, "royal blue," cabinet size and so-called club
shape, of pure white hard-textured porcelain.
The vases are invested with a brilliant blue souffle glaze, including finely penciled
tracery in gilding on the shoulder and also between the reserved white upright panels.
The panels are separately decorated vsnth the figure of a lady, in graceful attitude, carry-
ing a fan, dunng her promenade in a terraced garden surrounded by balustrade and trees,
the reverse showing flowers and plants all beautifully executed in the "seven" colors of
the "famille verte" palette.
White foot, without mark.
Era of K'ang-hsi (1662-1722).
Height, 9 ''2 inches.
Diameter, 4 inches.
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