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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTION (LOTS 114 AND 115) 清十八世紀 掐絲琺瑯荷葉式洗
*114
A RARE AND LARGE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL 'LOTUS-LEAF'
BRUSH WASHER, XI 來源:
18TH CENTURY Samuel Putnam Avery（1847- 1920），紐約
The impressive washer is fashioned as a broad, deep lotus leaf with its veins
fnely and naturalistically detailed in shades of green and russet enamels. The 於1909至1910年間贈予紐約布魯克林藝術與科學博物館
long spiralling gilt-bronze stems form the stand, and bear a further folded leaf, 亞洲私人珍藏
a lotus pod, and a blossoming lotus fower with white petals and pinkish tips;
together with Catalogue of the Avery Collection of Ancient Chinese Cloisonnés,
Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, New York, 1912.
15¾ in. (40 cm.) wide 出版:
£30,000-50,000 US$40,000-65,000 《Avery Collection of Ancient Chinese Cloisonnés 》，
€35,000-58,000
紐約，1912年，頁67，圖版129
PROVENANCE:
Samuel Putnam Avery (1847- 1920), New York.
Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, accessioned during 展覽:
1909 and 1910.
「The Avery Collection of Ancient Chinese
EXHIBITED:
The Avery Collection of Ancient Chinese Cloisonnés, Museum of the Brooklyn Cloisonnés」1909至1910年紐約布魯克林藝術與科學博物
Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1909-1910.
館展出
LITERATURE:
Avery Collection of Ancient Chinese Cloisonnés, Museum of the Brooklyn It is very rare to fnd a lotus leaf washer in cloisonné enamel and particularly
Institute of Arts and Sciences, New York, 1912, p 67, no. 129. one of this size. Although this subject matter was a popular choice of form
for washers of the Qing period, they are more commonly crafted from other
materials such as jade and crystal, for example, a jade lotus leaf-form washer
sold at Christie’s New York, 19-20 May 2013, lot 1739. For a similar but
smaller cloisonné enamel lotus-leaf-form washer (24 cm. wide), see one sold
at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 June 2015, lot 2916.

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