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                                                                  A RARE PAIR OF CARVED
                                                                  CINNABAR LACQUER ‘DA JI’
                                                                  DOUBLE-GOURD FORM VASES
                                                                  QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
                                                                  Each vase is well carved on the upper and lower body
                                                                  with four circular medallions, those on the upper body
                                                                  enclosing the character da, those on the lower body
                                                                  the character ji, reserved on a diaper ground within
                                                                  a ruyi-head border surrounded by a dense ground of
                                                                  lotus scroll and the bajixiang, Eight Buddhist Emblems,
                                                                  the waist encircled by a green-lacquered, ‘ribbon’ tied
                                                                  in bows at the sides, all between pendent scroll-filled
                                                                  blades below the mouth and on the spreading foot.
                                                                  12¡ in. (31.6 cm.) high, wood stands   (2)
                                                                  HK$1,800,000-2,600,000
                                                                  US$240,000-340,000
                                                                  PROVENANCE
                                                                  Collection of Colonel P-L (1826-1896)(by repute)
                                                                  Sold at Mathias & Oger-Blanchet, Paris, 9 December
                                                                  2019, lot 58
                                                                  Compare with a pair of nearly identical vases sold at
                                                                  Christie’s New York, 20 September 2002, lot 171.

                                                                  清乾隆   剔紅綬帶大吉葫蘆瓶一對

                                                                  來源
                                                                  P-L 法國海軍上校 (1826-1896) 舊藏 ( 傳 )
                                                                  Mathias & Oger-Blanchet,巴黎,2019 年 12 月 9 日,
                                                                  拍品 58 號
                                                                  近似的剔紅大吉葫蘆瓶多無綬帶,本對瓶相當罕見。比較
                                                                  2002 年 9 月 20 日紐約佳士得拍賣近似一對,拍品 171 號。
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