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408
A LARGE ARCHAISTIC GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID
VASE
Qing Dynasty
The body flanked with stylised dragon-head loop
handles, crisply cast in relief to each side with a large
taotie mask above a band of four smaller taotie masks
and stylised dragons to the spreading foot, all on leiwen
grounds, the shoulder with three ribbed bands rising to
an everted rim.
29cm (11 3/8in) high.
£1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,000 - 14,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
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清 銅錯金銀饕餮紋雙耳瓶

See a related example, 17th century, illustrated by
M.Goedhuis, Chinese and Japanese Bronzes A.D.
1100–1900, London, 1989, no.84; and also D.Failla,
Food for the Ancestors Flowers for the Gods:
Transformations of Archaistic Bronzes in China and
Japan, Genoa, 2017, p.234, no.9.5.

409
A BRONZE ‘DRAGONS AND CARP’ TRIPOD
INCENSE BURNER
Qing Dynasty
Of compressed globular form, the body finely chased
with a pair of five-clawed dragons pursuing the flaming
pearl of wisdom amidst cloud-scrolls, the reverse
408 similarly decorated with a pair of dragons chasing the
pearl flanking a carp attempting to leap over the gate
above mountains, the cylindrical neck cast with a cash-
diaper ground, rising to a flared flat rim with foliate
scrolls, flanked by a pair of S-shaped handles decorated
with foliate scrolls and bats amidst clouds, all raised on
three flaring monster-mask legs terminating in clawed
feet, the underside decorated with a medallion enclosing
a dragon.
36.2cm (14 1/4in) wide.
£1,200 - 1,500
CNY11,000 - 14,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
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清 魚龍紋三足銅爐

410
A PAIR OF REVERSE-GLASS PAINTINGS OF
IMMORTALS
19th century
Each depicting various Daoist Immortals in the clouds,
each within a silvered border, giltwood frames.
40.5cm (15 3/4in) wide x 39cm (15 1/4in) high. (2).
£1,500 - 2,000
CNY14,000 - 18,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
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十九世紀 繪仙人像玻璃鏡畫一對

409 A multi-panelled screen inlaid with reverse-painted glass
panels, the top row of which are similar, is illustrated by
Hu Desheng, Screens in the Palace Museum Collection:
Classics of the Forbidden City, Beijing, 2015, no.50.

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