Yellow ground famille-rose double-gourd vase
Price: 111 million yuan
Date: Oct 8, 2013
Auction house: Hong Kong Sotheby
Masterfully potted, the large globular lower bulb gracefully sweeps up to a significantly smaller upper bulb and rises to a proportionally elegant slender neck and flared mouth. The lower bulb is meticulously painted in soft pastel famille-rose enamels with large stylized lotus, double lotus, peonies and attendant hibiscus flowers.
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