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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION
A FAMILLE-VERTE 'BOYS' ROULEAU VASE
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
the cylindrical body elegantly painted with boys at play, one with hands clasped over the eyes of a playmate, observed by an older boy wearing an official's robe and clasping a ruyi scepter, a small boy crouching over in laughter, as another, bearing a lotus blossom on a stick, happily tickles the central figure with a twig, all set between a band of lappets encircling the base and an elaborate cloud collar enclosing crane medallions, florets and leafing fruit on a pale-green stippled ground, the shoulder with stylized chrysanthemum reserved on a diaper ground, the slender neck with a raised chevron filet, repeated at the rim
Height 18 in., 45.7 cm
Estimate
20,000
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30,000
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