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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DAVID B. PECK III ANOTHER PROPERTY
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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL RECTANGULAR WALL PLAQUE A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL HU-FORM VASE
18TH CENTURY 18TH CENTURY

The plaque is decorated with an ‘elephant head’ vase flled with The lower body and the neck are decorated with bands of lotus scroll
fowers, including wintersweet and nandina, surrounded by a separated by a band of bead-hung demi-forets and descending purple
jardinifre of narcissus and lingzhi, ribbon-tied twin fsh, lingzhi, bats enclosed within linked ruyi-shaped reserves on the shoulder
peaches and frecrackers. which is fanked by a pair of ‘elephant’-head handles, all between a
18√ x 21æ in. (48 x 55.3 cm.) with frame petal-lappet border below and a border of lingzhi scroll at the rim.
13 in. (33 cm.) high
$10,000-15,000
$20,000-40,000
PROVENANCE:
Similar bands of lotus-scroll decoration and stylized ‘elephant’-head handles
Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1987. can be seen on a Qianlong-marked blue and white porcelain hu-form vase
sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet Hong Kong, 16 May 1977, lot 89.
EXHIBITED:
清十八世紀 掐絲琺瑯纏枝蓮紋象耳尊
Spink & Son Ltd., The Minor Arts of China III, London, March - April
1987, cat. no. 106.

The combination of images on this plaque is representative of the New
Year. Wax plum and nandina are usually combined in New Year fower
arrangements, and the narcissus, which symbolizes good fortune, purity
and prosperity, is forced to bloom in time for the holiday. The frecrackers
(baozhu), which are set off on New Year’s day, when combined with a
vase (ping), which is a pun for ‘peace’, form the wish (Suisui ping’an), ‘May
there be peace year after year’. Also included are peaches (tao) and lingzhi,
both symbols of longevity.

清十八世紀 掐絲琺瑯博古圖屏