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    19 September 2007

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    • A SMALL FAMILLE ROSE DISH
    Lot 424

    A SMALL FAMILLE ROSE DISH

    FOUR-CHARACTER SHENDE TANG MARK IN IRON RED, DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850)

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    USD 1,500

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    USD 2,000 - USD 3,000

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    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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