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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE OVIFORM VASES
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARKS, EARLY REPUBLIC PERIOD
Each tapering toward the foot below the flaring rim and painted in mirror image with a standing lady holding a fan pointing up at two butterflies beside a boy holding a dog on a leash also pointing, all in a continuous landscape scene with a willow and blossoming peony tree issuing from rockwork, the reverse with a four-line poem and three iron-red seals
7 in. (18 cm.) high (2)
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARKS, EARLY REPUBLIC PERIOD
Each tapering toward the foot below the flaring rim and painted in mirror image with a standing lady holding a fan pointing up at two butterflies beside a boy holding a dog on a leash also pointing, all in a continuous landscape scene with a willow and blossoming peony tree issuing from rockwork, the reverse with a four-line poem and three iron-red seals
7 in. (18 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Mrs. Cartwright Hignett.
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END OF MORNING SESSION