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TWO PORCELAIN VESSELS Covered box: Qianlong seal mark, Republic period; Water coupe: Yongzheng seal mark, 20th century (2) image 1
TWO PORCELAIN VESSELS Covered box: Qianlong seal mark, Republic period; Water coupe: Yongzheng seal mark, 20th century (2) image 2
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Lot 234

TWO PORCELAIN VESSELS
Covered box: Qianlong seal mark, Republic period; Water coupe: Yongzheng seal mark, 20th century

18 – 28 June 2023, 15:00 PDT
Online, Los Angeles

Sold for US$832 inc. premium

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TWO PORCELAIN VESSELS

Covered box: Qianlong seal mark, Republic period; Water coupe: Yongzheng seal mark, 20th century
Comprising an ingot-shaped box and cover, the cover centered by a shaped panel painted in famille-rose enamels with a bird perched atop a rockwork in a garden, framed by a millefleur border repeated at the sides of the cover and box, the base of the box with an apocryphal seal mark in iron red; and a 'clair de lune'-glazed waterpot with a globular body and an applied chilong at the shoulder, the base with an apocryphal seal mark in underglaze blue.

4in (10.2cm); 3 3/8in (8.6cm) wide (2).

Footnotes

Provenance:
Bertha Clark Thomas Asian Collection, thence by descent

Gilbert Maxie Thomas and Bertha Clark Thomas of Berkeley, California, lived in China in the early 1920s for seven years, when Mr. Thomas was on assignment in Shanghai as a consultant for California's utility company, Pacific Gas & Electric. While living in China, the couple collected furniture, bronzes and porcelains.

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