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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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