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5 A similar cloisonné enamel stupa is in the Uldry Collection, illustrated by
H. Brinker and A. Lutz in Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection,
A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL MODEL OF A BUDDHIST STUPA New York, 1989, p. 279. The authors mention that the Qianlong emperor
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) encouraged the manufacture of religious objects in cloisonné and
commissioned several monumental cloisonné pagodas between 1764 and
The globular body rises to a cylindrical ribbed neck below a galleried top and 1782, the largest being 293 cm. high, ibid, pp. 140-141. The pair to the stupa
is supported by a domed base which sits on a square-section base. The stupa in the Uldry Collection was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 31 May 2010, lot
is decorated with bands of lotus, masks and lappets all on turquoise grounds. 1970.
The base is similarly decorated with a central double-vajra symbol.
10 in. (25.2 cm.) high 清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯纏枝蓮紋佛塔
£20,000-30,000 $29,000-42,000 來源:歐洲私人珍藏
€26,000-38,000
PROVENANCE:
From the collection of a private European lady.
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