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A RARE SMALL INLAID BLACK LACQUER WATER POT
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The sides of the bell-shaped water pot are fnely inlaid in mother-of-pearl and gold with four
roundels enclosing diferent fowering plants within borders of circles, all surrounded by a
fower-diaper ground between borders of cell diaper below and on the shoulder above. The
recessed base is inlaid in gold wire with a maker’s seal mark, Qianli.
1º in. (3.2 cm.) high, ftted cloth box and cloth stand

$8,000-12,000
(mark)
PROVENANCE
Xu Hanqing (1882-1961) Collection.
A Connoisseur’s Vision: Property from the Xu Hanqing Collection; Christie’s New York,
15 September 2011, lot 928.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.
There are several inscriptions by Xu Hanqing on the cloth box. One on the cover reads, ‘gold-
inlaid water pot fnely made by Jiang Qianli of Ming’, followed by Chunzhai, which is repeated
on the inner removable cover, as well as that it was recorded by Xu Hanqing in the second
month of 1936.
清 黑漆螺鈿花卉紋水丞

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