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A European Private Collection of Scholarly Objects
歐洲私人收藏文房用品系列
Lots 350 - 361

3A5f0in*e cloisonné enamel pear-shaped vase

Qianlong five-character mark and of the period
The pear-shaped body enamelled with a continuous intertwining meander
issuing four red and white lotus blossoms, the neck with two red six-petalled
flowers and two yellow and blue six-petalled flowers amidst scrolls beneath a
band of ruyi-head at the rim.
13cm (5 1/8in) high
£6,000 - 8,000
HK$71,000 - 94,000 CNY56,000 - 75,000

清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯纏枝蓮紋直頸瓶 陰刻「乾隆年製 蘭」楷書款

Provenance: acquired from Roger Keverne Ltd., London, on 14 August 1998
A European private collection

來源：1998年8月14日購於倫敦古董商Roger Keverne
歐洲私人收藏

Compare a related cloisonné enamel vase, Qianlong mark and period, in the
Palace Museum, illustrated by Zheng Xinmiao, ed., Compendium of Collection
in the Palace Museum: Enamels 2 - Cloisonné in the Qing Dynasty
(1644-1911), Beijing, 2011, pl.154.

A similar cloisonné enamel vase, Qianlong mark and period, was sold in our
Hong Kong rooms on 28 May 2010, lot 273.

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T3h51re*e cloisonné enamel scholar’s objects 351

Qianlong
Comprising a baluster vase enamelled with scrollwork issuing three pink
and white lotus blossoms beneath a ruyi-head band and stiff lappets on
the neck, 11.8cm (4 5/8in) high; a miniature archaistic square gu vase
enamelled with flowers and buds, 7.5cm (3in) high; and an inkcake rest
enamelled on the top with a red fully blossoming lotus flanked by two
other blue flowers and foliate scrolls, raised on stepped gilt base,
7.2cm (2¾in) long. (3).
£3,000 - 5,000
HK$35,000 - 59,000 CNY28,000 - 47,000

清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯文房用品三件

Provenance: the gu vase and the ink cake rest acquired from Roger
Keverne Ltd., London on 12 April 2000 and 8 July 1999 respectively;
the baluster vase acquired from Alastair Sampson Ltd., London, on 22
May 1998.
A European private collection

來源：花觚與墨床分別在2000年4月12日和1999年7月8日購於倫
敦古董商Roger Keverne；花瓶在1998年5月22日購於倫敦古董商
Alastair Sampson
歐洲私人收藏

Compare two related inkcake rests in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
illustrated in Scholar’s Paraphernalia: Classics of the Forbidden City,
Beijing, 2009, nos.156 and 157.

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