Sale 1877
New York
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19 September 2007
Price realised
USD 70,600
Estimate
A VERY RARE COPPER-RED-DECORATED MEIPING 18TH CENTURY Well painted in copper-red of unusually vibrant tone with a dense overall design of six sinuous chi dragons grasping scrolling stems of lingzhi, all between a band of lappets rising from the base and below a ruyi-head border encircling the shoulder, the waisted neck with a band of upright leaves above a narrow key-fret border, all below the heavily lipped rim 12½ in. (31.7 cm.) high, box, stand
Provenance
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Hong Kong, 29 November 1977, lot 196. Bluett, London.
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