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DEUX EMBLEMES BOUDDHIQUES EN
BOIS LAQUE OR
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE
QIANLONG (1736-1795)
Reposant sur une base lotiforme composée de
pétales à cinq niveaux et des volutes entrelacées
fnement sculptées, ils sont rehaussés du double-
poisson et du parasol ; petites restaurations.
Hauteur : 68 cm. (25º in.) (2)

€12,000-18,000 US$14,000-20,000
£11,000-16,000
Buddhist emblems are made of a variety of materials
such as in gilt-bronze, porcelain, cloisonné enamel,
champlevé enamel and gilt-lacquered wood. The
construction of the present two emblems raised
on a lotus fower with the same type of stylized
stems is relatively well-known. Closely related
exemples of slightly larger gilt-lacquered wood
Buddhist emblems is in situ in several halls in the
Lama temple, Yonghe Gong, in Beijing. A set of
other emblems of similar design, probably made
entirely of gilt-bronze and enamel, is in situ on the
third foor of the Pavilion of Raining Flowers in the
Forbidden City, and is illustrated in Cultural Relics
of Tibetan Buddhism Collected in the Qing Palace,
Forbidden City Press, Hong Kong, 1992, pl. 109-1.
Among the Eight Buddhist Emblems, the Paired
Fish (shangyu) symbolizes conjugal happiness,
fertility, protection and spritual liberation. The
Umbrella (san) embodies spiritual authority,
reverence and purity.
TWO GILT-LACQUERED WOOD BUDDHIST
EMBLEMS
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
(1736-1795)
清乾隆 木漆金八吉祥供器 一組兩件