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PROPERTY FROM THE WATER, PINE AND STONE RETREAT
COLLECTION
3022
A VERY RARE IMPERIAL INSCRIBED
LACQUERED SILVER BOVINE-FORM RHYTON
GILT QIANLONG YUWAN FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF
THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The rhyton is constructed in the form of a buffalo head with a
silver interior lining, applied to the exterior with black, brown,
cinnabar-red and ochre lacquer. The buffalo head is characterised
with large rounded eyes containing black pupils, eyelashes
rendered in incised gilt lines, projecting horns and ears in red and
brown lacquer, as well as an elongated nose. The front of the cup is
incised and gilt in clerical script with three characters Zhou sigong ‘a
sigong of the Zhou dynasty’, the back of the cup with a long poetic
inscription, the base with a gilt seal reading Qianlong yuwan ‘For
the enjoyment of the Qianlong Emperor’.
4 º in. (10.8 cm.) high, box
HK$4,200,000-7,000,000 US$540,000-900,000

PROVENANCE
A Taiwanese private collection
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 25 November 1987, lot 486

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fig. 1 Chongxiu Xuanhe bogu tu, ‘Revised Edition of Illustrated Catalogue
of Antique Objects in the Emperor Huizong’s Collection’,
Siku quanshu edition, juan 16
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