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A RARE AND LARGE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL
LOZENGE-FORM VASE
18TH CENTURY
Each side of the diamond-section vase is elaborately and fnely
decorated with a diferent scene of pavilions amongst pink
scrolling clouds in a river and mountainous landscape setting.
The scenes are executed in great detail with gilt wires and
inflled with a melange of polychrome enamels. The neck and
faring foot are decorated with squared scrolls.
18⅛ in. (46.2 cm.) high
£20,000-30,000 US$27,000-39,000
€24,000-35,000
PROVENANCE:
Private Scandinavian Collection.
Cloisonné enamel vases with this style of intricate landscape
decoration are exceedingly rare, particularly one of diamond
form and of such size. This style of enamelling which mixes
within and traverses beyond the wirework compare closely
to a cong-form vase decorated on the sides with diferent
scenes of pavilions in mountainous landscapes, illustrated in
The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum
- 43 - Metal-bodied Enamel Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 153,
no. 145. This example, together with a number of other
cong-form vases of diferent sizes and themes of decoration,
are illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace
Museum - Enamels (3) - Cloisonné in the Qing Dynasty (1644-
1911), Beijing, 2011, pls. 135-140. The enamelling can also be
compared to a two-sided panel from the Qianlong-period in
the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, illustrated by Beatrice
Quette (ed.) in Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan,
Ming and Qing Dynasties, New York, 2011, p. 141, no. 7.21.
See two further examples of cong-form vases sold at
Christie's Paris, 21-22 June 2016, lot 285, and Christie's Hong
Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 2075.

清十八世紀 掐絲琺瑯山水圖菱形瓶

來源: 北歐私人珍藏

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