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A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE EWER, COVER AND CUP
18th century
The ewer finely cast with the handle issuing clusters of pine needles
and the spout formed as a bamboo sprout issuing two further
branches and slender leaves, the domed cover surmounted by a
branch of prunus, the cup supported on three feet, with flaring foliate
rim and ruyi-cloud handle.
The ewer, 19cm (7 1/2in) high; the cup, 7.5cm (3in) long. (3).
£2,000 - 3,000
CNY17,000 - 26,000
十八世紀 局部鎏金銅開光花卉圖執壺配小盃
Provenance: a British private collection, and thence by descent
來源：英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今
A similar parcel-gilt bronze ewer and cover, 18th century, is illustrated
in China’s Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H.Clague Collection
of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, Phoenix, 1993, pp.142-145,
no.28.

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