A VERY FINE FAMILLE ROSE VASE

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A VERY FINE FAMILLE ROSE VASE
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The strongly potted guan is finely enamelled with four magpies, in flight and perched on two flowering prunus boughs speckled with lichen, extending in opposite directions, one branch picked out in shades of brown and the other in grey, amidst iron-red peonies in various stages of growth
12 1/4 in. (31 cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Cf. a Qianlong pear-shaped vase with decorated with similar subject-matter in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p. 337, no. 18.

(US$32,000-50,000)

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