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A magnificent and large pair of Imperial cloisonné enamel cranes
18th/19th century
Each majestic crane superbly cast and enamelled with tall slender legs in
gilt bronze ending in four-clawed feet, the separately-cast body covered
with white enamel streaked with gold to simulate soft feathers leading
up the elegantly-curving neck to the small rounded head capped with a
red cranium above the expressive eyes flanking the sharp gilded beak,
the body ending in feathers brightly and naturalistically enamelled
blue, green and black, and further covered with another layer of
separately-cast feathers, each bird supported on a rounded mountain
of overlapping layers of hills decorated with pink flowers, all upon a
hexagonal stand fringed with a reticulated fence set upon a band of
keyfret above two rows of lappets formed from crashing waves between
bands of cloisonné panels with floral scrolls.
Each 218cm (85¾in) high (8).
£80,000 - 120,000
HK$940,000 - 1,400,000 CNY750,000 - 1,100,000
十八/十九世紀 御製掐絲琺瑯仙鶴一對
Provenance: an Italian private collection
來源: 意大利私人收藏

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