Asian Art II - 13th November 2019

Lot 638

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE MEIPING 19TH CENTURY Decorated with gentlemen and ladies holding fans...

Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £2800

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Description

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE MEIPING

19TH CENTURY

Decorated with gentlemen and ladies holding fans admiring butterflies in a garden, with a thin wisp of pink cloud swirling above them, the reverse painted with pine growing amidst flowers and rocks, with a band of yellow to the mouthrim, the base a replacement, 27.8cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Joseph Alexander Thomson (d.c.1950) who worked in Hangzhou, and thence by descent.