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348 Compare a related enamel lantern included in a garniture sold at
A painted enamel lantern and stand Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 October 2011, lot 1980.
18th/19th century
The hexagonal lantern enamelled on five sides with a shou character in
red between a lotus flower below, a gardenia flower above, a peony to
the right and a peach spray to the left all amidst leafy stems, the sixth
side with a door also with a shou character beneath a bat, the lantern
raised on a stepped foot painted with twin rows of lotus-petal lappets,
the fixed cover also with lappets supporting the domed roof painted to
imitate tiles beneath a row of ruyi heads below the stepped finial with
stylised lotus-petals.
47cm (18½in) high (2).
£7,000 - 9,000
HK$82,000 - 110,000 CNY66,000 - 85,000

十八/十九世紀 畫琺瑯花卉壽字紋六角形燈籠

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