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    The Decorative Arts Sale

    Amsterdam

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    30 June - 1 July 2009

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    • A large Chinese famille verte
    Lot 276

    A large Chinese famille verte baluster jar and a cover

    KANGXI (1662-1722)

    Price realised

    EUR 39,400

    Estimate

    EUR 8,000 - EUR 12,000

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    A large Chinese famille verte baluster jar and a cover
    Kangxi (1662-1722)
    Enamelled around the sides with a continuous rocky landscape, depicting foreigners with curly hair and prominent noses, a figure with large red nose waiting cross-armed by a pavilion, one dignitary seated beside a Chinese beauty in a horse-driven cart and surrounded by bannermen, a servant carrying a picnic basket and water jug suspending from a pole, from behind rocks two men carrying game, rim crack and frittings
    56 cm. high

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