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Lot 5047

A Chinese Olive Form Export Porcelain Palace Vase

Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Republic period (1912-1949), finely potted with a large baluster body rising to a short waisted neck, richly decorated in famille rose enamels with shaped reserves enclosing elegant court scenes and ornate floral compositions, with borders of peonies, bats, and dragons, surrounded by a gilt ground populated with millefleurs a myriad of dense flowers rendered in delicate pastel tones, the underside is unglazed with a red seal mark.

53 in., 20 in. diameter

Private Collection, Charlottesville, Virginia

Overall good estate condition; with a large repair at foot rim and continuing upwards in an arch; a white substance to underside partially obstructing the factory seal.