Live Auction 17346Visions of Collecting: Royal and Aristocratic, An Important Private Collection
A PAIR OF CHINESE YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE 'BUTTERFLY AND XI' LOBED JARDINIÈRES
Lot 219

A PAIR OF CHINESE YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE 'BUTTERFLY AND XI' LOBED JARDINIÈRES

19TH CENTURY

Closed19 September 2019

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A PAIR OF CHINESE YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE 'BUTTERFLY AND XI' LOBED JARDINIÈRES
19TH CENTURY
Each brightly enamelled with a multitude of butterflies and double xi (happiness) characters in gilt, all below a band of keyfret to the rim, supported on five ruyi-form feet
13 ¼ in. (33.6 cm.) diameter

With Arne Bruun Rasmussen (1910-1985), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 12 May 1986, lot 231.