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                                                                            A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE 'FIGURAL'
                                                                            BALUSTER VASE
                                                                            YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)
                                                                            The vase is finely decorated in bright enamels with a
                                                                            continuous scene depicting an elegant lady carrying a
                                                                            vase and empty basket addressing a fisherman with a
                                                                            long staff slung over his shoulders, watched by a robed
                                                                            gentleman sipping wine on a riverboat with his wife
                                                                            and small child to his side, a pink jacket strung out on
                                                                            a pole drying in the wind behind them. The reverse is
                                                                            decorated with a bold design of a large plantain tree
                                                                            and rocks and the neck is further embellished with a
                                                                            wrapped qin and censer.
                                                                            15¿ in. (38.2 cm.) high
                                                                            £30,000-50,000        US$39,000-65,000
                                                                                                    €33,000-54,000
                                                                            PROVENANCE:
                                                                            With Salle des Ventes des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 29
                                                                            February 1956.
                                                                            Collection of Professor and Mrs Robert de Strycker,
                                                                            Belgium.
                                                                            A similar vase is illustrated by Li Yihua in Kangxi,
                                                                            Yongzheng, Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace
                                                                            Museum Collection, Beijing, 1989, p.213, no.42 and
                                                                            again, by Yang Xin in Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel
                                                                            Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, The Complete
                                                                            Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1999, Vol. 39,
                                                                            p.61, no.51.

                                                                            清雍正 粉彩山水人物圖尊
                                                                            來源:
                                                                            購自布魯塞爾 Salle des Ventes des Beaux-Arts, 1956年2月29日
                                                                            比利時 Robert de Strycker教授伉儷珍藏






































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