19TH/20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE HEXAGONAL LANTERNS AND STANDS
19TH/20TH CENTURY
Each decorated with panels of Immortals within borders of 'The Hundred Boys', all reserved on pierced gilt cell-pattern grounds, the lanterns raised on waisted detachable pedestals
15 ½ in. (39.5 cm.) high overall

Provenance

Purchased from van der Plas, 19 October 1979

Lot Essay

Compare the famille verte lantern and stand of very similar form and date, but decorated all over with floral designs, which is in the Groninger Museum, Holland, inv. no. 1990-239, (see Christiaan J. A. Jörg, Famille Verte, Chinese Porcelain in Green Enamels, Groninger, 2011, p. 180, no. 177).

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