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A LARGE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL MOONFLASK
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The moonfask is applied to either side of the garlic-head neck with gilt
dragon-form handles and is boldly decorated in bright enamels to the circular
body with a large phoenix amongst a dense, leafy ground with peonies of
diferent sizes and colours, including a large central red and white peony.
25¬ in. (65 cm.) high
£6,000-8,000 US$7,500-9,900
€6,800-9,000
The present lot may be compared with a large cloisonné enamel moonfask (52
cm. high) decorated with peonies, but without the phoenix, from the collection
of David B. Peck III sold at Christie's New York, Rivers of Colour: Cloisonné
Enamels from Private American Collections,18 September 2014, lot 640.

清 掐絲琺瑯富貴鳳凰紋雙龍耳蒜頭抱月瓶

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PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN GENTLEMAN
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A LARGE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL BALUSTER VASE
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase is decorated to the body with four seasonal birds and fowers
medallions between scrolling lotus. The shoulder is encircled with a band of
deer amongst lingzhi sprays below eight ftted studs incised with the Eight
Buddhist Emblems. The neck is similarly decorated with bats and tassels
amongst tendrils and is applied with two gilded dragon-handles.
28º in. (71.8 cm.) high
£10,000-15,000 US$13,000-19,000
€12,000-17,000
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's New York, 26 November 1991, lot 398.
Compare the present cloisonné vase to a similarly decorated and shaped hu-
vase with Qianlong mark in the Pierre Uldry collection illustrated by Helmut
Brinker and Albert Lutz in Chinese Cloisonné: Pierre Uldry Collection, London,
1989, pl. 281.

清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯花鳥紋雙龍耳大瓶
來源:
紐約蘇富比1991年11月26日, 拍品398
歐洲私人珍藏

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