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A NEAR PAIR OF POWDER-BLUE AND GILT ‘MEDALLION’ Reputedly collected by the secretary to the French ambassador to
BOTTLE VASES, SHANGPING Shanghai in the 1940s, and thence by descent.
Guangxu six-character marks and of the period Compare each vase with a similar gilt-decorated powder-blue bottle
Each globular vase embellished with many roundels of different vase, Guangxu mark and of the period, sold in our New Bond Street
designs, the shoulder encircled with a scrolling lotus flower head salerooms, 14 May 2015, lot 166.
meander with shou symbols, all between a lappet border at the foot
and a ruyi-head band at the flaring mouth rim. The largest: 39cm (15
3/8in) high (2).
£10,000 - 15,000
CNY97,000 - 150,000
HK$120,000 - 180,000
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