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1793
A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL ‘HOLY WATER’ VASE, GANLU PING
18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The high-shouldered body tapers towards the spreading foot, and is
surmounted by a tall, cylindrical neck encircled by a narrow, gilded collar. The
vase is decorated overall with lotus scrolls on a turquoise ground.
9º in. (23.5 cm.) high

$6,000-8,000
清十八至十九世紀初 掐絲琺瑯纏枝蓮紋甘露瓶

1793

1794
A PAIR OF MASSIVE CLOISONNÉ AND CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL
CRANE-FORM CENSERS
19TH CENTURY
Each crane is shown standing on a colorful, grassy mound interspersed with
orchids and lingzhi that is raised on a waisted, hexagonal base decorated
around the sides with lotus scroll and gilt petal-lappet bands, and each grasps
in its beak a stem of lingzhi that forms a pricket candlestick. The body is white
with a dense pattern of gilt wires, and the separately made wings, which
form the cover for the opening at the back of the body, have small turquoise
and large, dark greyish-blue feathers similar to the tail feathers. The legs are
detachable at the body and the base.
94 in. (238.8 cm.) high approximately
(2)
$60,000-80,000

A pair of similar cranes, of somewhat smaller size (72 in.), is illustrated in
Colorful, Elegant, and Exquisite: A Special Exhibition of Imperial Enamel
Ware from Mr. Robert Chang’s Collection, 28 December 2007 - 8 May 2008,
Suzhou Museum, pp. 70-71, where they are dated Qianlong period. They,
also, grasp lingzhi-form candlesticks in their beaks, and have similar white
bodies and wing and tail feathers, but the covers are missing. Pairs of similar,
large, crane-form incense burners can be seen in photographs illustrated by
Wang-go Weng and Yang Boda in The Palace Museum: Peking, Treasures
of the Forbidden City, New York, 1982; one pair grasping lingzhi-form
candlesticks in their beaks in the Palace of Heavenly Purity, p. 25, the other
pair shown fanking the throne in the Hall of Great Harmony, pp. 44-45.
An almost identical pair of cloisonné enamel crane-form censers of slightly
smaller size was sold at Christie’s New York, 18 September, 2014, lot 645.
清十九世紀 掐絲琺瑯仙鶴式大香爐一對 1794 (detail)