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Lot Essay
See also illustration on page 18.
Details
A blue and white vase
Kangxi
Painted to the pear-shaped body with two leaf-shaped panels enclosing a butterfly hovering above flowering peony issuing from rockwork, surrounded by the 'Hundred Antiquities' below a zigzag and floral band around the shoulder, 19 cm. high; and a saucer dish painted with a group travelling in a mountainous landscape on horseback and in a rickshaw, the exterior with a trellis-pattern band, 18.9 cm. diam. (2)
Kangxi
Painted to the pear-shaped body with two leaf-shaped panels enclosing a butterfly hovering above flowering peony issuing from rockwork, surrounded by the 'Hundred Antiquities' below a zigzag and floral band around the shoulder, 19 cm. high; and a saucer dish painted with a group travelling in a mountainous landscape on horseback and in a rickshaw, the exterior with a trellis-pattern band, 18.9 cm. diam. (2)
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