A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE OVAL TUREEN AND COVER QIANLONG 1736-95 Decorated with a watery landscape scene with pavilions on the shore and figures on a sampan, with two scroll handles to the sides and raised on an oval foot; the cover with a finial modelled as a fruit, together with an associated rectangular stand with canted corners, 32.5cm and 37cm. (3) PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE. 注：本拍品不設底價。 Provenance: from a British private collection, formed between 1970-2003.

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