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A RARE YELLOW-GROUND CANTON ENAMEL
EGG-FORM BOX AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY
the tapering lower section Þ nely painted with two scholars,
one standing with a fan, the other, the Tang poet Li Bai
resting by a wine jar, separated by two rectangular panels
enclosing poetic inscriptions, the hinged high-domed cover
with two Þ gures, a Þ sherman and nearby attendant with
a basket, divided by fruit-form reserves enclosing further
inscriptions, all against a rich yellow ground, the interior
white-enameled, the gilt-copper rims incised with foliate
motifs, a small aperture below the metal catch
Height 3⅛ in., 8 cm
EXHIBITED
Chinese Painted Enamels, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,
England, 1978, cat. no. 113.
Oriental Works of Art, Gerard Hawthorn Ltd., London, 2005,
cat. no. 67.
$ 5,000-7,000
㶭⋩ℓġİġ⋩ḅᶾ䲨ġġġ戭偶䔓䏢䐗湫⛘Ṣ䈑⚾
攳⃱娑㔯㨊⚻味䙺
࢝ᚎ
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˪ChineseġPaintedġEnamels˫炻旧Ṩ卓㜿⌂䈑棐炻
䈃㳍炻劙⚳炻1978⸜炻䶐嘇113
˪OrientalġWorksġofġArt˫炻GerardġHawthornġLtdį炻
ΐ㔎炻2005⸜炻䶐嘇67

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A QUATREFOIL CANTON ENAMEL ‘EUROPEAN
SUBJECT’ DISH
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
with shallow, upright sides around the shaped perimeter,
the interior painted in bright enamels with elegantly dressed
men and women gathered on a garden terrace appreciating
various objets d’art, the city’s buildings and treetops in
the distance, the cavetto with abstracted lotus scroll
painted in grisaille, the exterior with polychrome lotus scroll
interspersed with portrait medallions, the base with two men
sailing toward European-style buildings set in a Chinese-style
mountainous landscape
Length 11 in., 29.9 cm
$ 5,000-7,000
㶭⋩ℓᶾ䲨ġġġ戭偶䔓䏢䐗大㲳Ṣ䈑⚾㴟㢈⺷䚌

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