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A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL BALUSTER
VASE AND STAND
Incised Qianlong four-character mark and of the
period
The globular body raised on a spreading foot
supported on a bracket stand with lappets,
decorated with four large lotus heads issued from
leafy scrolling foliage on a bright turquoise ground,
rising to a waisted neck similarly decorated with
lotus scrolls beneath a band of floral tendrils to the
stepped rim, flanked by a pair of archaistic scroll
handles suspending loose rings above lion masks.
20.4cm (8in) high
£5,000 - 7,000
CNY43,000 - 61,000
清乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯番蓮紋活環耳小瓶
「乾隆年製」楷書刻款
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
Compare with a related pair of cloisonné enamel
vases, Qianlong marks and of the period, of similar
baluster form decorated with lotus scrolls, in the
Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, illustrated by
E.Rawski and J.Rawson eds, China: the Three
Emperors 1772-1795, London, 2005, p.139, pl.44,
as part of an altar set consisting of a pair
of candlesticks and an incense burner.

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