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ANOTHER PROPERTY
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                                                                                                                                 A RARE CLOISONNÉ AND CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL BOWL
                                                                                                                                 QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
                                                                                                                                 The heavily cast bowl is decorated with four circular medallions
                                                                                                                                 enclosing the characters, wan shou wu jiang (ten thousand years of
                                                                                                                                 long life without end), all surrounded by lotus scroll between yellow-
                                                                                                                                 green champlevé enamel borders of archaistic dragon scroll above
                                                                                                                                 and petal lappets below. The interior, foot and base are heavily gilded,
                                                                                                                                 and the latter is inscribed with a four-character mark, zi sun yong bao
                                                                                                                                 (treasured forever by sons and grandsons), within a double square.
                                                                                                                                 6 in. (15.4 cm.) diam.

                                                                                                                                 $25,000-35,000
                                                                                                                                 According to Qing court records, in the 45th year of the Qianlong
                                                                                                                                 reign (1780), a large number of cloisonné enamel bowls and dishes
                                                                                                                                 decorated with wanshou wujiang characters were produced for the
                                                                                                                                 celebration of the Emperor's 70th birthday.                            (another view)
                                                                                                                                 A pair of similar bowls, of comparable size, is illustrated by Claudia
                                                                                                                                 Brown in Chinese Cloisonné: The Clague Collection, Phoenix Art
                                                                                                                                 Museum, 1980, pp. 122-23, pl. 56, and others have been sold at
                                                                                                                                 auction, including a pair at Christie's New York, 20 March 2001, lot
                                                                                                                                 53, and a single bowl at Sotheby's London, 4 November 2009, lot
                                                                                                                                 144. Brown notes that bowls of this type in varying sizes include one
                                                                                                                                 in the Clague Collection, one in the Staatliche Museum, Berlin, and
                                                                                                                                 six in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Bowls of the same design, but
                                                                                                                                 of smaller size (3¾ and 4 in.) and with deeper sides, have been sold
                                                                                                                                                                                                          (mark)
                                                                                                                                 at Christie's Hong Kong: a pair, 28 November 2006, lot 1678, and a
                                                                                                                                 single bowl with Qianlong mark, 29 May 2013, lot 2073. See, also, the
                                                                                                                                 two bowls of this design and bearing the same zisun yongbao marks,
                                                                                                                                 in the Beijing Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Compendium
                                                                                                                                 of Collections in the Palace Museum - Enamels (2) - Cloisonne in the
                                                                                                                                 Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Beijing, 2011, pls. 281 and 282.

                                                                                                                                 清̖隆ǎ掐絲及鏨胎琺瑯Ǚ萬壽無疆ǚ盌ǎǙ子孫永寶ǚח款










          PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT PRIVATE COLLECTION
          1023
          A PAIR OF CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL MOON FLASKS
          19TH CENTURY
          Each flattened vase is decorated with peony branches and fluttering
          butterflies on one side and a pair of quail on the reverse, all reserved on a
          turquoise ground. The vases are incised with De Cheng marks on the base.
          8º in. (21 cm.) high                           (2)
          $12,000-15,000

          顯赫私人珍藏
          清十九世紀 掐絲琺瑯花鳥紋抱月瓶一對 「德成」刻款
                                                                                 (marks)






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