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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A VERY RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL ARCHAISTIC YOU-FORM The present cloisonné enamel vessel illustrates the popularity of archaism
VESSEL AND COVER during the Qianlong period, and exemplifies some of the finest cloisonné
QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820) techniques. Its design is based on a Shang dynasty (c. 1600-c. 1046 BC.)
The pear-shaped body of oval section is raised on a splayed foot and is vessel prototype, you, which served as a wine-storage or presentation jar
and was used in ceremonies honoring the spirit of a deceased ancestor. For
decorated with taotie masks divided by four flanges amidst ruyi-form clouds an example of a Shang dynasty prototype, see a you excavated at Jiajiacun,
and keyfret, all reserved on a mottled dark bluish-green ground interspersed Qishan county, Shaanxi province, attributed to the late Shang period,
with patches of red and light blue to suggest the corrosion on an ancient illustrated in Shaanxi chu tu Shang Zhou qingtongqi (Bronzes of Shang and
bronze. The neck is cast with a pair of beast-form terminals with ears Zhou Dynasties Unearthed in Shaanxi Province), vol.1, Beijing, 1979, pl. 24.
decorated with wan emblems connecting the arched handle. The domed cover
with vertical flanges is similarly decorated. The present cloisonné enamel you would have been a luxury item even at the
12º in. (31.2 cm.) high time when it was made, and the superior quality may suggest an imperial
connection or attribution. A virtually identical cloisonné enamel you of very
$30,000-50,000 similar size and dated to mid-Qing dynasty was previously in the Qing Court
Collection, and illustrated in Metal-bodied Enamel Ware. The Complete
PROVENANCE: Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum Vol. 43, Beijing, 2001, p. 155,
Acquired by the family of the present owner, circa 1980. no. 147. (Fig. 1)

私人珍藏
清乾隆/嘉慶 掐絲琺瑯饕餮紋仿古卣
來源:
現藏家之家族於1980年前後入藏

Fig. 1 Cloisonné you-
form vessel, mid-Qing
dynasty. Palace
Museum, Beijing.
圖一 掐絲琺瑯獸面紋提
梁卣, 清中期, 北京故宮博
物院藏

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