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PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR gilt and set on a bright blue ground, the reverse cloisonné enamel baluster vase, sold at
A PAIR OF LARGE CLOISONNE with a plain gilt surface and a single rectangular Christie’s Hong Kong 30th May 2005, lot 1220,
ENAMEL DOUBLE GOURD WALL aperture, mounted on a gilt-bronze demilune and an inscribed handled cloisonné enamel hu
VASES base cast with bats and clouds in relief, further vase, from the collection of Alfred Morrison,
sold at Christie’s London, 9th November 2004,
raised on a conforming bracket foot (2)
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD Height 15⅜ in., 39 cm lot 52.
each with a broad, rounded lower body tapering PROVENANCE
at the waist before rising to the compressed $ 40,000-60,000
upper bulb below the surmounting register, Acquired in the 1960s, and thence by descent.
rounded and with a scalloped rim, the top For an inscribed imperial Qianlong cloisonné
register with colorful C-scrolls and ruyi against enamel wall vase in the form of a moonflask, 清乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯「大吉」
a cobalt blue ground, the upper bulb centered now preserved in the National Palace Museum, 詩文葫蘆壁瓶一對
with gilt characters Da Ji encircled by the Eight Taipei, see Qing fa lang qi zhan lan tu lu/Enamel
Daoist Emblems, the lower register centered by ware in the Ming and Ch’ing dynasties, Taipei, 來源
a lingzhi head-form gilt plaque inscribed with 1999, cat. no. 46. A cloisonné enamel wall vase
a poem and signed yuzhi shiju / Wang Jihua attributed to the Qianlong period, with a similar 得於1960年代，此後家族傳承
gongji with one seal, flanked by four of the inscribed plaque and mounted stand was sold
Buddhist emblems on either side, all against a at Sotheby’s Tokyo, 1st-3rd October 1969, lot
dense ground of scrolled clouds picked out in 230. Compare the present lot with an inscribed

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