Sale 1877
New York
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19 September 2007
Price realised
USD 1,500
Estimate
A SMALL FAMILLE ROSE DISH FOUR-CHARACTER SHENDE TANG MARK IN IRON RED, DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850) The shallow dish painted with a scene of Zhong Gui in a landscape clutching his sword in his left hand, his right raised as he looks to his side at two young male attendants releasing bats from a large jardiniére, all beneath a continuous gilt-decorated ruyi-head border, the reverse decorated in iron-red with two dragons amidst flames and clouds, one chasing a pearl, the other looking back at a pearl held in its rear right claw 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) diam.
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