A pair of Chinese porcelain vases and covers, 19th century, painted in famille verte enamels with a continuous scene of a large white elephant carrying an emperor and officials, one of whom is carrying a flag bearing a five-clawed dragon whilst a...
A pair of Chinese porcelain vases and covers, 19th century, painted in famille verte enamels with a continuous scene of a large white elephant carrying an emperor and officials, one of whom is carrying a flag bearing a five-clawed dragon whilst a hawk perches at the end of a staff, the elephant flanked by a procession of horses and riders in a wooded grove, the distant landscape decorated with jagged rocks and patches of flowers, underglaze blue apocryphal six-character Kangxi marks within double-circles borders to bases, 39cm high (2) Provenance: Christie's, 10th June 1999, lot 619
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A pair of Chinese porcelain vases and covers, 19th century, painted in famille verte enamels with a continuous scene of a large white elephant carrying an emperor and officials, one of whom is carrying a flag bearing a five-clawed dragon whilst a hawk perches at the end of a staff, the elephant flanked by a procession of horses and riders in a wooded grove, the distant landscape decorated with jagged rocks and patches of flowers, underglaze blue apocryphal six-character Kangxi marks within double-circles borders to bases, 39cm high (2) Provenance: Christie's, 10th June 1999, lot 619