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A PAIR OF CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE SQUARE
PRICKET CANDLESTICKS
Qianlong
The spreading bases rising to the curved shallow drip-pans and
columns below smaller drip-pans surmounted by prickets, decorated
around the exterior in bright enamels on a turquoise ground with
blossoming lotus and stylised florets interspersed amidst leafy foliate
scrolls. 40cm (15 3/4in) high (2).

£6,000 - 8,000
CNY54,000 - 72,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

清乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯纏枝蓮紋方形燭台一對

The present lot would have originally served as a part of a garniture
set for ritual or ancestral altars. Compare with a related pair
of cloisonné enamel candlesticks of square section, Qianlong,
illustrated as part of a five-piece altar garniture by H.Brinker and
A.Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, New York,
1989, pl.267. A single cloisonné enamel candlestick, Qianlong four-
character mark and of the period, displaying a similar treatment
of interlacing lotus designs, but cylindrical in section, is illustrated
in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels,
vol.2, Beijing, 2011, p.368, no.296. Compare with a related pair of
cloisonné enamel candlesticks of square section, Qianlong, which
was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 7 November 2019, lot 200.

329 330
A PAIR OF LARGE PAINTED ENAMEL VASES, GU
Lingde Tang three-character marks, late Qing Dynasty
Each of archaic bronze gu form with rounded central section
supported on a tall flared foot rising to a trumpet neck with upright
rim, elaborately enamelled to the exterior and interior of the trumpet
neck with composite foliate scrolls on a bright blue ground, all within
decorative borders formed by stylised leaves and ruyi-heads, the rim
and border of the foot painted with key-fret, each shoulder reserved
with three medallions enclosing a three-character hall name, Lingde
Tang, ‘Hall of Excellent Virtue’, in red enamel on a green ground.
Each 49.5cm (19 1/2in) high. (2).
£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

清晚期 銅胎畫琺瑯纏枝蓮紋花觚一對
「令德堂」楷書款

Provenance: Roger Keverne Ltd., London
A Texas private collection
Christie’s New York, 17 March 2016, lot 1460

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer
Exhibition, London, 2010, no.61

來源：倫敦古董商Roger Keverne Ltd.
美國德州私人舊藏
紐約佳士得，2016年3月17日，拍品編號1460

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2010年，
編號61

The hallmark on the present lot, Lingde Tang (‘The Hall of Virtue’),
may be associated with the Lingde Tang School in Taiyuan, Shanxi
Province, which was founded in 1883 by Zhang Zhidong (1837-
1909) while he was the Governor (Xunfu) of Shanxi. An avid advocate
330 of controlled reform, Zhang summarised his method in the phrase
‘Chinese Learning as Substance, Western Learning for Application’,
and introduced his principle into the curricula of the many academies
he had founded in different cities.

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