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A PAINTED ENAMEL ‘EUROPEAN SUBJECT’ BALUSTER VASE
AND COVER
18th century
The elegantly elongated vase, decorated with shaped panels of exotic
European ladies and gentlemen in garden scenes, birds and flowers,
tigers, and mountainous landscapes, all against meandering floral
scrolls, the cylindrical neck with plum blossoms against a cracked-ice
ground, the domed cover with floral scrolls and surmounted by a lotus-
bud finial. 29.5cm (11.5/8in) high. (2).
£800 - 1,200
CNY7,200 - 11,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十八世紀 銅胎畫琺瑯歐洲主題蓋瓶

See a pair of painted enamel garniture vases, Yongzheng, with similar
decoration, illustrated by J.A.Lloyd Hyde, Chinese Painted Enamels
from Private and Museum Collections, New York, 1969, no.1.
383
A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL BEEHIVE-SHAPED WATERPOT,
TAIBO ZUN
Qianlong red-enamel four-character mark and of the period
The circular domed vessel painted with a band of blue archaistic
dragons encircling the mid-body, reserved on a turquoise and key-fret
ground, the shoulder with a formal leaf-lappet collar.
5.7cm (2.1/4in) diam.
£6,000 - 8,000
CNY54,000 - 72,000
383
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

清乾隆 銅胎畫琺瑯仿古螭龍紋水丞
礬紅「乾隆年製」楷書款

Provenance: Nagatani, Inc., Chicago, 1 November 1952
Stephen Junkunc, III (circa 1905-1978)

來源：芝加哥長谷商會，1952年11月1日
史蒂芬·瓊肯三世（約1905-1978）舊藏

Decorated with fine archaistic designs underscoring the Qianlong
emperor’s fascination with the spirit of ancient times, which he sought to
replicate, the present waterpot was either commissioned by the Imperial
Court or presented as tribute from enamel workshops in Guangdong.
Examples, such as the present lot, are rare, but an earlier related
painted enamel ‘beehive’-shaped waterpot, Kangxi, is illustrated in the
Compendium of Collections of the Palace Museum: Enamels, 5, Beijing,
2011, no.32.
384
AN UNUSUAL PAINTED ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE ‘PEACH’
WATERPOT
18th century
The scholar’s vessel formed as a deeply-hollowed ripe peach with
generously-rounded sides, the fruit blushing a deep pink shading to pale
lime-green around the circular top aperture, applied with a gilt-bronze
leafy stem forming the handle and feet of the vessel, the high-relief
leaves enamelled in shades of green with black veins.
8.5cm (3 3/8in) long.
£800 - 1,200
CNY7,200 - 11,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十八世紀 銅胎畫琺瑯桃式水丞

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer
Exhibition, London, 2005, no.59 (left) 384

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2005年，
編號59（圖左）

A similar painted enamel peach-shaped brush washer, Yongzheng, in
the Qing Court Collection, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum: Metal-bodied Enamel Ware, Hong
Kong, 2002, p.203, no.194.
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