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A pair of large cloisonné enamel ‘fish’ vases, tianqiuping A cloisonné enamel revolving vase
Late Qing Dynasty
Each boldly contoured and enamelled in orange and grisaille with nine Late Qing Dynasty
round-bodied fish variously blowing water sprays and swimming among The separately cast almost spherical body set with four medallions
regular rows of undulating blue and green waves, all beneath a band of
key-fret at the rim. each containing a front-facing five-clawed dragon in gilt bronze amid
Both about 72cm high (2). reticulated cloud scrolls, surrounded by cloisonné enamel lotus scrolls,
£15,000 - 20,000
HK$180,000 - 240,000 CNY140,000 - 190,000 the body rotating around a central core mounted on the foot with a row

清晚期 掐絲琺瑯海水魚紋天球瓶一對 of stiff lappets to support the body, the flaring neck also fixed around
the core with a row of interlocking ruyi-head beneath stiff lappets

pointing upwards at lotus scrolls, the rim with a further row of ruyi-head.
33.4cm (13 1/8in) high
£10,000 - 15,000
HK$120,000 - 180,000 CNY94,000 - 140,000

清晚期 掐絲琺瑯鏤空雲龍紋轉心瓶

Compare a similar pair of revolving cloisonné enamel vases, dated
second half of the 18th century, in the Phoenix Art Museum, illustrated
in Chinese Cloisonné: The Clague Collection, Phoenix, Arizona, 1980,
pl.58.

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