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A VERY RARE PAIR OF IMPERIAL IRON-RED READING
LAMPS, SHUDENG
Daoguang seal marks and of the period
Each domed base rising from a stepped foot to a knopped shaft
supporting a drip pan with an everted flaring rim, surmounted by
a baluster-shaped stem rising to a smaller drip pan fitted with a
metal pricket, the base and the lower drip pan brightly and similarly
enamelled in iron-red with meandering lotus scrolls entwined with
ruyi-heads alternating with shou characters, all divided by bats and
composite floral scrolls, the underside enamelled turquoise with an
iron-red seal mark, fitted box.
Each 15.4cm (6in) high (3).

HK$1,500,000 - 2,000,000
US$190,000 - 260,000

清道光 礬紅描金福壽纏枝蓮紋書燈一對
礬紅「大清道光年製」篆書款

Provenance:
Maurice Marchant de Vernouillet (1829-1898), Second Secretary to the
French Ambassador in Beijing, 1861-1862.

Published and Illustrated:
Marchant Ltd., 90th Anniversary Exhibition: Qing Porcelain from Private
Collections, London, May 2015, no.46 and back cover.

來源：
1861-1862年間法國駐北京大使館二等秘書，莫瑞斯·馬尚·維爾努耶
（1829-1898）舊藏

出版及著錄：
倫敦古董商Marchant Ltd.，《九十週年紀念展：私人收藏清代瓷器》
，2015年5月，編號46及封底

Augustin ‘Maurice’ Marchant de Vernouillet (1829-1898) was
the Second Secretary to the French Ambassador in Beijing
from 1861-1862. He was awarded the following honours:
Officer of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the Academy,
Commemorative Medal for the China Campaign, Grand Cross
of Isabella the Catholic, Commander of Charles III, Officer of
Mededick, Knight of the Order of Pius IX, Order of St Maurice
and Lazarus, Order of Independence of Montenegro. He was
the son of Augustin Marchant de Vernouillet, who built the
famous Chateau de la Caillotiere in Anjou, France.

莫瑞斯·馬尚·維爾努耶（1829-1898）為1861至1862期間法國
駐北京大使館的二等秘書，他曾獲得眾多榮譽勳章，包括法國
政府頒授的最高榮譽勳位勳章、學院軍官章、遠東戰役勳章、
西班牙皇家十字勳章、查爾斯三世勳章、庇護九世騎士勳章等
等。其父奧古斯丁·馬尚·維爾努耶則是位於法國安茹地區著名
的科爾尼艾爾堡的建造人。

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