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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
女史珍藏
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A PAIR OF PALE GREY-BLUE CLOISONNE The elephant is the embodiment of strength, wisdom and intelligence,
and the vase represents eternal harmony. The combination of the two
ENAMEL FIGURES OF ELEPHANTS conveys the rebus taiping youxiang, ‘peaceful times’or ‘when there is
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY peace, there are signs'.
Each standing figure has gilt tusks and is richly caparisoned in A pair of cloisonné enamel caparisoned elephants of a colour similar
separately made trappings, including gilt-copper straps and a to that of the present pair, which also supports vase, is seen flanking a
removable, fringed cloisonné enamel blanket decorated on each throne in a photograph of The Eastern Warming Chamber in the Hall
of Mental Cultivation, where the Empress Dowager Cixi summoned
side with a bat suspending a chime below a removable section in ministers to audiences, illustrated by Wan Yi et al. in Daily Life in the
the shape of a saddle supporting a vase. Forbidden City, New York, 1988, p. 64, pl. 86.
8æ in. (22.2 cm.) high (2)
HK$600,000-800,000 US$78,000-100,000 清十九世紀 掐絲琺瑯太平有象擺件一對
PROVENANCE 來源
The David B. Peck III Collection David B. Peck III 舊藏
Sold at Christie's New York, 18 Septemebr 2014, lot 644 紐約佳士得，2014 年 9 月 18 日，拍品 644 號

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