Lot 405
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A FAMILLE ROSE VASE
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A FAMILLE ROSE VASE

REPUBLIC PERIOD (1912-1949), HONGXIAN NIAN ZHI BLUE ENAMEL FOUR-CHARACTER MARK

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A FAMILLE ROSE VASE
REPUBLIC PERIOD (1912-1949), HONGXIAN NIAN ZHI BLUE ENAMEL FOUR-CHARACTER MARK
Finely painted with a scholar seated at a table before a beautiful river landscape, possibly a depiction of the 4th Century calligrapher Wang Xizhi, gaining inspiration for his fan painting and famous for his love of geese
11in. (28cm.) high
Provenance
Peter Wain, Heavenly Pieces, An Exhibition of Chinese Porcelain of the Early 20th Century, Shropshire, England, May 1993, pp. 18, no. 19.
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Lot Essay

Family History relates how this vase was presented by Yuan Shikai to one of his Colonels. The Colonel was executed by a later administration and the vase passed down through the family from whom it was then purchased.

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