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    Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Including Export Art

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    17 June 2003

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    • A FAMILLE ROSE CANTON ENAMEL S
    Lot 189

    A FAMILLE ROSE CANTON ENAMEL SAUCER-DISH

    18TH/19TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    GBP 1,792

    Estimate

    GBP 1,500 - GBP 2,000

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    A FAMILLE ROSE CANTON ENAMEL SAUCER-DISH
    18TH/19TH CENTURY
    With shallow rounded sides, the centre with an octafoil cartouche enclosing a bird and a butterfly among peony, chrysanthemum and rockwork, reserved on a yellow diaper ground within a key-pattern band, below cartouches of fruit and flowers on a blue floral ground, the reverse with a central dragon roundel, scrolling foliage and lotus
    10 5/8 in. (27 cm.) diam.

    Provenance

    Christie's London, 14 May 1979, lot 174.

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