Live Auction 5467The Althorp Attic Sale - Including the Spencer Carriages
A CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE SLEEVE VASE
Lot 428

A CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE SLEEVE VASE

LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed8 July 2010

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GBP 3,000

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A CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE SLEEVE VASE
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Enamelled with rectangular panels enclosing a pheasant and peony on one side and birds and a dragonfly with bamboo and gourds on the other, reserved on a brick-red ground with dragons and scrolling foliage, the neck with stiff leaves
17½ in. (44.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

Photographed in the Ante Room at Spencer House, circa 1926, as one of a pair of sleeve vases, prior to being moved to Althorp that year by Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975).