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A CORAL-GROUND GRISAILLE-PAINTED ROULEAU VASE
QING DYNASTY
the cylindrical body with two rectangular panels of grisaille-painted landscapes, one depicting an elderly sage carrying a basket of lingzhi, the other showing a scholar leaning out over the water from a rustic hut, divided by prunus, orchid, chrysanthemum and bamboo enclosed within four smaller shaped cartouches, the neck with two rectangular reserves detailing further auspicious emblems, a three-legged toad, coral 'antiques' and a recumbent deer, all reserved on a delicately mottled, rich orange-red ground
Height 18 1/4 in., 46.4 cm
Estimate
8,000
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12,000
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