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PROPERTY FROM THE LIESELOTTE AND ERNEST TANSEY FOUNDATION (LOTS 166-170 & 490-511)
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE VASES
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE VASES
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each with two iron-red Buddhist lion and cub handles to the neck, decorated with a pair of bulbul amongst peonies representing the rebus fuigui baitou, which may be translated as ‘may you enjoy riches and honour in old age’, the reverses with a poetic inscription, signed and dated
18 ½ in. (47 cm.) high excluding fitments
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each with two iron-red Buddhist lion and cub handles to the neck, decorated with a pair of bulbul amongst peonies representing the rebus fuigui baitou, which may be translated as ‘may you enjoy riches and honour in old age’, the reverses with a poetic inscription, signed and dated
18 ½ in. (47 cm.) high excluding fitments