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73 Compare a similar red-ground cloisonné enamel circular jardinière,
An imperial cloisonné enamel lobed circular dated to the Qing Dynasty, in the Palace Museum, illustrated in
jardinière the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels
Qianlong 4 - Cloisonné in the Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2011, pl.6. See also a
The multiple lobes of the upper section each enamelled with a blue related red-ground jardinière with shou characters included in an
shou character flanked by a bat above and below against a red alcove setting in the Chuxiugong in the Forbidden City and illustrated
ground, all above a raised gilt-bronze decorative band, the lower in Imperial Furniture of the Ming & Qing Dynasties: Classics of the
section with each lobe enamelled with a pendent bat suspending Forbidden City, Beijing, 2008, no.358. Another is illustrated in The
a yellow Buddhist wan symbol above another bat suspending a Prime Cultural Relics Collected by the Shenyang Imperial Palace
ribboned turquoise ruyi. Museum: The Enamel Volume, Shenyang, 2007, p.78, pl.9, and a
21cm (8¼in) diam. further example in the Fairhaven Collection at Anglesey Abbey in
£10,000 - 15,000 Cambridgeshire, National Trust Inventory Number 513423.
HK$120,000 - 190,000 CNY98,000 - 150,000
清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯蝠壽紋花式花盆
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