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ANOTHER PROPERTY

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A CLOISONNÉ AND CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL
AND GLASS LANTERN
18TH CENTURY

The lantern is of square section, and each
side is inset with a glass panel within blue
key-fret borders, two are decorated with a
gold dragon leaping amidst clouds, and one
is hinged as a door, all below a petal-lappet
band that surrounds the open top. Below
are openwork scroll aprons and a square
platform with openwork balustrade raised
on a faceted gu-form support that rises from
the square platform that forms the top of the
cushion-form base.

18º (46.4 cm.) high

$20,000-30,000

A pair of cloisonné and champlevé enamel
lanterns of similar form and decoration, but with
diferently painted glass panels, was sold at
Christie’s New York, 24 March 2011, lot. 1617.
清十八世紀 嵌胎掐絲琺瑯宮燈

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