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A PAIR OF PAINTED ENAMEL
QUATREFOIL JARDINIÈRES WITH JADE
AND HARDSTONE TREES
The jardinières 18th century, the trees 19th
century
Each vessel finely painted in pale blue and
gilt on a bright cobalt ground with scrolling
lotuses and floral medallions within gilt
frames, the trees modelled with gilt trunks,
the branches decorated with soapstone, jade
and jadeite leaves, flanked by jade rocks and
scholars.
Each 53.5cm (21in) high. (2).
£3,000 - 5,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十八世紀 銅胎畫琺瑯海棠式盆 配十九世紀
百寶盆景 一對

Miniature gardens were highly regarded by
the scholarly elites of late Imperial China.
385 Deemed to function as analogues to their
real counterpart, these model landscapes
provided the learned men with a perfect
escape from the world of mundane affairs.
For references about garden containers, see
A.Stein, The world in miniature: container
gardens and dwellings in Far Eastern religious
thought, Stanford, 1990; and J.Rawson,
‘Cosmological systems as sources of art,
ornament and design’, in Bulletin of the
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 2000,
pp.133-189.

A selection of miniature gardens made of
semi-precious stones within gilt enamel
jardinières in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is
illustrated in Gugong Zhenbao, 2004, pp.199-
203. A related pair of jardinières containing
miniature gardens, dated 18th/19th century,
was sold at Bonhams London, 11 May 2015,
lot 154; and another pair was sold at Christie’s
New York, 20 March 2011, lot 1628.

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A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL The design, shape and decorative motifs A HONGMU OCTAGONAL STAND,
RECTANGULAR CASKET FOR THE of items made for foreign markets were XIANGJI
MIDDLE-EASTERN MARKET influenced by the specific demands and 19th century
18th century tastes of the clients in those regions. Objects The tall stand with a single-panel top set
Meticulously and densely enamelled with produced for the Middle East and particularly within an octagonal frame, above a narrow
interlocking arabesques in red, blue, yellow the Armenian market, such as the present waist and apron carved with stylised archaistic
and green on a white ground, the interior lot, have their own characteristic features; scrolls, the elegant recessed legs of square
white, with an illegible inscription to the see L.Mengoni, Reaching Foreign Markets: section connected by an octagonal frame at
interior. 17.7cm (7in) wide. Chinese Painted Enamels for Export, London, the feet.
2014, p.42, where Mengoni notes that 129cm (50 6/8in) high x 44cm (17 3/8in) wide.
£5,000 - 8,000 ‘Several enamelled objects found in the
CNY45,000 - 72,000 Middle East were decorated with inscriptions £2,000 - 3,000
in Arabic or Armenian.’ The present lot with CNY18,000 - 27,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at floral motifs on a white ground is reminiscent
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 of the style and palette found on some 16th Please note this Lot is to be sold at
century Iznik tiles found in the Topkapi Sarai, No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
十八世紀 外銷銅胎畫琺瑯卷草花卉紋長方 illustrated by J.Rawson, Chinese Ornament:
蓋盒 The Lotus and the Dragon, London, 1984, 十九世紀 紅木八方香幾
pp.188-189. The present lot also echoes
elements of Persian carpets, in particular the
medallions and lotus patterns on the Ardebil
carpet, see ibid., pl.6.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
240 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.