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AN UNUSUAL POWDER-BLUE-GROUND PAINTED ENAMEL VASE
18TH CENTURY
The slender, tapering body decorated with a landscape scene of a duck and a drake paddling in water, framed by branches of hibiscus, rose and other flowers, rising from craggy rocks and thick ground vegetation, with two kingfishers, one perched on a branch, the other flying with wings outstretched, all finely painted in brilliant enamel colors against a powder-blue ground, with a band of gui dragons and a ruyi-cloud collar at the metal-encircled mouth and foot, chip to base, fine crackling to interior enamel
7¾in. (19.7cm) high
