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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Asian, Australian & European Decorative Arts & Furniture
• Sale Date:
  30 Oct 2012 ~ 6pm
• Lot #:
  186
• Lot Description:
  A 'Famille-Rose' 'Butterfly' Vase Mark And Period Of Guangxu
  the globular body surmounted by a trumpet neck and everted rim, painted in iron-red and 'famille-rose' enamels with numerous butterflies in flight divided by a frieze of detached lotus sprays and shou characters around the sloping shoulders above a raised gilt band, all below a ruyi band below the rim and upright lappets around the foot, the base inscribed in iron-red with a six-character mark
  38.8CM
• References:
  Compare with two vases of this pattern sold Sotheby's New York, 20 March 2012 lot 312; see also a pair of vases sold Sotheby's London 12 May 2010, lot 193
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Oriental

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