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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL BRUSHREST
Incised Qianlong four-character mark and of the period
The three-peaked brushrest finely enamelled in bright tones of red,
white, yellow, green and blue, decorated to each side with a large lotus
flower head borne on scrolling foliage issuing two flanking flowers, all
reserved on a bright turquoise ground above a band of ruyi-heads,
raised on a gilt-bronze base adorned with leafy scrolling tendrils
supported on four bracket feet, fitted box.
11.1cm (4 3/8in) wide (2).

£15,000 - 20,000 CNY150,000 - 190,000
HK$180,000 - 240,000

清乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯勾蓮紋三峰筆架
「乾隆年製」楷書刻款

For a similar three-peaked brushrest with lotus scrolls design, Qianlong
mark and of the period, see Compendium of Collections in the Palace
Museum: Enamels 3, Cloisonné in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911),
Beijing, 2011, pl.45. A further example, Qianlong mark and of the
period, is illustrated in Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection,
London, 1989, pl.273.

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