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A FAMILLE ROSE 'BUTTERFLY' VASE
GUANGXU IRON-RED SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)

Finely painted in bright enamels around the neck and body with colourful butterflies of different patterns and in different attitudes, scattered evenly around the surface, the shoulder with a band of lotus scroll interrupted by xi characters, all between a pendent ruyi band around the neck and upright lappets around the base
15 5/8 in. (39.8 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
Provenance
A Japanese private collection

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Lot Essay

Similar Guangxu-marked vases are illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 1983, p.133, no. 140; by G. Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure: Chinese Porcelain from the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection, London, 1987, p. 91, no. 126; and by H.A. Van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, the Netherlands, 1977, pl. 104. Compare, also, to one sold at Christie's New York, 19 September 2007, lot 430; and another sold at Christie's New York, 26 March 2010, lot 1445.

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