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A famille-rose 'Zhong Kui' jardinière, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period | 清雍正 粉彩鍾馗嫁妹圖花盆

Auction Closed

June 15, 03:38 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

A famille-rose 'Zhong Kui' jardinière

Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period


Diameter 23.5 cm, 9¼ in. ; Height 17.2 cm, 6¾ in.

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Jardinière finement peinte en porcelaine de la famille rose à décor de 'figures historiques', dynastie Qing, époque Yongzheng

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清雍正 粉彩鍾馗嫁妹圖花盆

Collection of Tang Shaoyi (1862-1938), the first prime minister of the Republic of China, and thence by descent.

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唐紹儀(1862-1938)舊藏,中華民國首任國務總理,此後家族傳承

This jardiniere depicts Zhong Kui, the demon Queller, here accompanying his sister, Mei’er, to her wedding. She is represented seated and being pushed in a wheeled sedan chair.


Compare another larger Yongzheng period jardinière, sold at Christie’s London, 14th June 1982, lot 58, p. 35, illustrated by Anthony du Boulay in Christie’s Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p. 226, no. 2.

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