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A documentary famille rose flower-shaped pouring vessel Guangxu, dated by inscription to AD1908 and of the period image 1
A documentary famille rose flower-shaped pouring vessel Guangxu, dated by inscription to AD1908 and of the period image 2
The Property of a Lady 女士藏品
Lot 90

A documentary famille rose flower-shaped pouring vessel
Guangxu, dated by inscription to AD1908 and of the period

Withdrawn
Amended
8 November 2012, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

A documentary famille rose flower-shaped pouring vessel

Guangxu, dated by inscription to AD1908 and of the period
The body formed as an opening lotus blossom with overlapping incised petals enamelled in pink ending with a square spout, the underside with an applied lime-green stem stippled and inscribed in black Daqing Guangxu sanshisinian Jiaotaihu fujin qiucao jinian bei.
20cm (8in) long

Footnotes

Provenance: an English private collection

清光緒 粉彩牡丹形吸杯 茄彩「大清光緒三十四年安徽太明湖附近秋操紀念杯」楷書款

來源:英國私人收藏

The inscription may be translated: Cup commemorating the autumn military exercises held near Lake Taiming in Anhui during the 34th year of the Guangxu reign of the Great Qing Dynasty. A similar cup dated to 1907 was included in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition, Hong Kong, and is illustrated by L.A.Cort and J.Stuart, Joined Colors: Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain, Washington D.C., 1993, no.67.

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