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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JAMES E. BREECE, III VARIOUS PROPERTIES
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A PAINTED ENAMEL HAND WARMER AND COVER A SMALL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL VASE
19TH CENTURY THE VASE MING DYNASTY, EARLY 16TH-17TH CENTURY, THE
The hand warmer of quatrefoil form has a pair of hinged handles rising from MOUNTS QING DYNASTY
the shoulder, and is decorated on the two wider sides with a lobed panel The compressed body is enameled with blue and red fower-heads on a white
enclosing a scene of two deer by the river bank, and on the two narrow sides ground, and the tall, narrow neck is similarly enameled with lotus blossoms.
with a lobed panel enclosing a pair of mandarin ducks swimming in a lotus The mouth rim is encircled by a gilt-bronze band incised with scrolls, and the
pond, all reserved on a turquoise ground scattered with composite foral neck is applied with a pair of gilt-bronze animal mask handles. The base is
scrolls below a ruyi band at the shoulders. The cover is pierced with a design of incised with a four-character mark, Qianlong nianzhi.
wan diaper, and decorated on the sides with similar foral scrolls.
5Ω in. (14 cm.) high
7æ in. (19.7 cm.) wide
$6,000-8,000
$4,000-6,000
明末/清初十六/十七世紀 掐絲琺瑯長頸瓶 金屬部件為清代後配
PROVENANCE
Prominent Midwest collection, acquired before 1985.
清十九世紀 銅胎畫琺瑯暖手爐

1790 (detail)