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The Property of a Lady 女士藏品
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A RARE CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL ARCHAISTIC ENAMEL VASE, HU Provenance: a Belgian private collection
Qianlong
The vase well cast with a globular body supported on a spreading 來源：比利時私人收藏
foot rising to a waisted neck, set with four taotie ring-handles at the
shoulder, brightly and lavishly enamelled around the exterior with The archaistic form and stylised taotie masks on this superbly
plantain lappets enclosing stylised taotie masks within acanthus enamelled vase encapsulates the Qianlong emperor’s reverence for
leaves, strapwork and blooming peonies, all reserved on a turquoise antiquity. Vases of this shape have their roots in archaic ritual bronze
ground decorated with lotus blooms and between bands of further hu vessels. Cloisonné enamel vases of this hu form with archaic
taotie, strapwork and lappets, later hardstone stand. taotie masks began earlier in the Ming dynasty; see a Ming prototype
38cm (15in) high. (2). in the Brooklyn Museum (acc.no.09.471). For a related cloisonné
enamel vase with animal mask decorations, mid Qing dynasty, see
£20,000 - 30,000 the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels, 3,
CNY180,000 - 260,000 Beijing, 2011, p.143, no.108.

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