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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-COPPER DOUBLE- A PAIR OF CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL ‘BAJIXIANG’ PRICKET
LOZENGE JARDINIÈRE CANDLESTICKS
Qianlong/Jiaqing Qianlong
Finely enamelled around the exterior with rectangular panels depicting Supported on a bell shaped base, enamelled with lotus blooms and
flowering branches of various fruit and flowers, including nandina, scrolling tendrils interspersed with the Eight Buddhist Emblems,
peach, narcissus and prunus, all reserved on a turquoise T-diaper bajixiang, all on a turquoise ground, below a band of interlocking
ground, encased within a gilded frame finely cast with scrollworks and ruyi-heads and a collar of gilded lappets, rising to a bulbous neck
keyfret, raised on six ruyi feet. supporting a shallow drip-pan and a tapering column continuing to a
29.5cm (11 5/8in) wide smaller drip-pan surmounted by gilt prickets.
Each 51.7cm (20 3/8in) high (2).

£4,000 - 6,000 CNY39,000 - 58,000 £18,000 - 24,000
HK$47,000 - 71,000 HK$210,000 - 280,000

CNY170,000 - 230,000

清乾隆/嘉慶 銅胎掐絲琺瑯百花紋方勝式花盆 清乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯八吉祥纏枝蓮紋燭台一對
Provenance: a distinguished European private collection
The present lot would have originally served as a part of a garniture
來源： 歐洲顯赫私人收藏 set for ritual or ancestral altars. For a related five-piece cloisonné
enamel garniture in the Qing Court Collection, comprising a related
pair of pricket candlestick decorated with lotus meanders, see The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Metal-
bodied Enamel Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, pl.138.

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