Lot 873
  • 873

A YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE-ROSE DOUBLE GOURD VASE AND A FAMILLE-ROSE 'THREE IMMORTALS' BOWL REPUBLICAN PERIOD

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 HKD
bidding is closed

Description

  • porcelain
the vase of flattened form set with ruyi-form handles, each side of the lower body with a grisaille-painted panel, all reserved against a yellow ground and decorated in floral scrolls, the base covered in a turquoise glaze save a square panel enclosing an apocryphal six-character seal mark; the bowl brightly enamelled on the exterior with three Daoist immortals seated in a rocky landscape below a pine tree, the base with an apocryphal six-character seal mark

Provenance

bowl: Sotheby's Amsterdam, 1st May 1999, lot 293.

Condition

The vase is in good condition. There is light rubbing to the gilding. The bowl is in good condition apart from some original kiln chips to the foot.
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