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A RARE MINIATURE CLOISONNÉ A JADEITE-HILTED KNIFE WITH A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-
ENAMEL AND HUANGHUALI HALBERD, CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL SHEATH BRONZE BOX AND COVER
Qianlong
Mid Qing Dynasty
QINGLONG JI
Qianlong The metal blade set with a pale green jade The cover decorated as a blue chequered
The huanghuali shaft carved two-thirds handle contained in a chased gilt band with a playing board with white square panels
from the handle with a raised double band scrolling border, the sheath brightly enamelled reserved with ruyi motifs, the gilt wire to
flanked by leafy crowns, one end mounted with stylised clouds in red, pink, purple, the sides simulating the leaves, the box
with a cloisonné enamel spearhead above a green and yellow on a turquoise-blue ground. enamelled with lotus sprays and foliage on a
crescent-moon blade above a lotus- lappet 27.8cm (11in) long. (2). turquoise ground. 17.5cm (6.7/8in) long. (2).
wrist guard, the other end with a three-sided
stabbing blade flame, all on a turquoise £800 - 1,200 £6,000 - 8,000
ground enriched with minute flower heads on CNY7,200 - 11,000 CNY54,000 - 72,000
blue tendrils. 42cm (16 1/2in) long.
Please note this Lot is to be sold at Please note this Lot is to be sold at
£1,500 - 2,000 No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
CNY14,000 - 18,000
清中期 掐絲琺瑯鞘翡翠柄刀 清乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯棋盒
Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 For a related set, see Wan Yi, Life in the See a similar cloisonné enamel and gilt-
Forbidden City of Qing Dynasty, New York, bronze box and cover, Qianlong, in the
清乾隆 黃花梨鑲銅胎掐絲琺瑯袖珍青龍戟 1988, p.163, no. 241. Compare with a National Palace Museum, illustrated in
related sheath of this type, illustrated by Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch’ing
The present lot was probably an attribute H.Brinker and A.Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, p.160, no.73. See
for a statue. See for example, a gilt-bronze The Pierre Uldry Collection, New York, 1989, also related cloisonné enamel book-shaped
figure of Zhoucang, an attendant of Guandi, no.303; compare also with a related knife, boxes and covers, Qianlong, illustrated in
the God of War, holding a halberd, 18th/19th second half 18th century, which was sold at The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
century, illustrated in Buddhist Images in Christie’s New York, 22 March 2007, lot 179. Palace Museum: Small Refined Articles of the
Gilt Metal, Taipei, 1993, p.190, no.88. A Study, Beijing, 2009, nos.7 and 312.
gilt bronze and cloisonné enamel figure of
a westerner, early 18th century, without
attribute, is illustrated by D.S.Howard, A Tale
of Three Cities, Canton, Shanghai and Hong
Kong: Three Centuries of Sino-British Trade in
the Decorative Arts, London, 1997, no.205.

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